One idea, almost silly. Could there be another box on the LAN with the same
machine name that wasn't running yesterday? In Win2K, you see what the machine
name is by right-clicking on My Computer, then Properties, then Network
Identification. (It will also show your Workgroup / Domain name).
Regards,
Tom
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> I was wondering if any of you can help with this....
>
> I have a e-smith box running with a shared drive using samba.
> All of the fixed computers (workstations) can see and access
> this drive just fine.
>
> The Windows 2000 laptop is another story.
> It has the right group name.
> I log in using the correct name.
> Yesterday I could map a network drive in 10 seconds.
> Today I get "The Semaphore timeout period has expired." error
> message. Repeatedly.
>
> BTW: TCP to the internet works fine so the network is working.
>
> I'm not a network guru so I don't even know where to start.
> [No smoke from the e-smith server so that's good news :-) ]
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Eric
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