[plug] samba connection problems

[Alan Graham]

Sorry mistyped,  I meant that the SMB/netbios namespace is completely
different to the tcp/ip namespace. 

On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 10:41, Alan Graham wrote:
> I've come into this conversation late, so apologies if say thongs that
> you've already been over.
> 
> The main error you're having (it seems) is a name resolution error on
> the XP box (ie, network path not found).  Remember that SMB in general
> doesn't use DNS, and the SMAB namespace is completey separate to the
> netbios namespace.  I;'d suggest that this is an XP problem, rather than
> a samba problem.
> 
> Things to try;  
> Can gatie see server2?  Ie, on gatie, what does "smbclient -L server2"
> show?  If it shows the shares you expect from server2, then the problem
> is definitely name resolution on XP.
> 
> Name resolution in an SMB network is handled by multiple broadcasts,
> unless you have a WINS server.  Is gatie set up to be a wins server?
> 
> Do all three machines agree on the workgroup?  
> 
> On the XP box, what is the result of "net view" ?
> 
> What is the result of "net view /workgroup=ournetwork" ?
> 
> Is the XP box only using tcp/ip?  If it's running netbeui, disable it,
> as netbios over tcp/ip is sufficient.  Netbios over netbeui won't talk
> to netbios over tcp/ip, as they're on different LANA's.
> 
> Keep us informed.
> 
> Alan
> 
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