I am receiving the same error, The smb.conf file that I originally had
when running 7.2 had no problems, but now, in 8.0, I see nothing but
problems...
I had to scrap that file, and create a new one with a few extra options,
and I still get that error when attempting to connect with Win98, winNT,
and win2k.
you'll find that you can also select START---RUN---\\linuxbox\ and then
enter in username and password for root and you will have access to the
shares (might want to try that in win2k).
Please let me know if someone gets back to you personally with a fix for
this.. I have been searching for assistance with this for a while now.
Thanks
> 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
>
>
