WOW paint me happy !!
i have trying to understand why the samba drive was
always becoming 'not availabe'. was it the router??
was it the samba setup??
two days and multiple power save periods and the samba
drive is still there!!
i checked the registry entries and could not find
anything like
Ron Garcia-Vidal wrote:
I need help on this urgently. Does anyone have any ideas? Is mine the
only place that is experiencing this problem? The suits are making
noises about getting a windows server in here, I don't want to see that
happen, but I don't know how to fix this very serious Samba
I BELIEVE this might be a client issue. I'm not really up to speed on Samba
yet, but there are some settings on XP that can affect this.
If so, switching to a Windows server won't fix it.
On the XP Client, command window:
C:\WINDOWS|► net config server
Server Name
On 2/6/07, Ron Garcia-Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow, I can only be sure by playing the waiting game, but the WINS server
parameter was pointing to a machine that I'd retired long ago! This
could very well be the culprit! Thank you so much for the tip. I'll
post back if this problem
When this issue occurs, what is the output from smbclient on the Samba
server?
# smbclient -L localhost
Also, I have had this problem in the past (long ago) and it turned out
to be an issue with WINS not being setup properly. Please post the
output to the following command or verify your
Wow, I can only be sure by playing the waiting game, but the WINS server
parameter was pointing to a machine that I'd retired long ago! This
could very well be the culprit! Thank you so much for the tip. I'll
post back if this problem disappears for a few days.
Josh Miller wrote:
When
