I've got a Mandrake 8.0 box set up and I'm trying to access it from a
Windows 2000 box SP1 box (not I've also tried from Windows 98 SE). I've set
the Samba box up as a member of the Mdkgroup workgroup and set up the
Win2000 box as the same. When I double click on Computers near me in My
Network places I get the following error - Mdkgroup is not accessible. The
server is not configured for transactions - and then it won't go any
further.
As some background, I had samba working on this box just fine back when it
had Mandrake 7.2. I've tried this with the password encryption
enabled/disabled and it made no difference. I had the same problem with
Mandrake 8.0 before I upgraded Samba to 2.0.8 and that is initially why I
upgraded Samba since I thought it might fix this problem. I do have the
user account set up for this particular samba user (seperate from the linux
account but with the same password). I've tried stopping and restart Samba,
rebooting the linux box and the Windows box but so far nothing has made any
difference.
I can succussfully ping the linux box but if I do a start - run and then
enter \\odin it gives me this error - \\odin The network name cannot be
found.
As far as I know there wasn't anything else I had to do in Mandrake 7.2 to
get this working but maybe I'm forgetting something. Has anyone else
experienced this since upgrading to Mandrake 8.0 and or Samba 2.0.8? And,
more importantly, know of a fix?
Thank you,
Scott Sprunger
