On Jul 1, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Dan wrote: > My housemate's PowerBook G4 (Tiger), is connected to our lan by either cat5 > or wi-fi... > > In the Sharing system preferences pane, the name is "karens-powerbook". And > the text displayed when you activate sharing says to use > karens-powerbook.home. > > Regular file sharing works fine - the PB advertises itself as > "karens-powerbook". > > Windows sharing, tho, is acting a bit strange. When turned on, it advertises > itself across the network several times! > > "karens-powerboo" is seen first, and it works fine. > (Ok, I'm playing fast'n'lose with the defn of "fine" - it functions as > expected). > > I'm guessing there's a 15 char limit on the machine names, hence loss of the > k.
Yeah, this is a WINS limitation, 15 chars or less or < Win 95, NT and DOS clients can't see the whole name and can't connect. We've run into that wonderful 'feature' setting up network printers here. > > But then a short time later, the name "karens-PowerBoo" appears. Connecting > to it sometimes fails. When it works, it always fails later during a file > transfer, with a time-out. Fail = either a message from my Mac saying the > alias is borked, or Finder SPODs for a while then says the remote isn't > responding. Look to make sure the computer name (as reported in the sharing control panel) and the local host name are the same, respecting case, they differ in 10.4. In the Windows sharing config dialog they state the way that other computers can access it, and it's all in lower case. If it persists, then the issue is fubared wins caches on the various peecees. I THINK this can be fixed by making them part of a different workgroup, restarting, then putting them back on the correct one (and restarting). > > And a short time later, the name "Karens-PowerBoo" appears. This one never > works. After a brief SPOD I get the standard alias borked message. > > > Where are those other names coming from? You don't possibly have a Windows workgroup or Active Directory domain set up, do you? If you do, fire up Directory Access on the Mac, and configure SMB/CIFS or AD correctly. If you're running AD, make sure the computer's properly joined to the domain..if necessary drop the computer, wait a bit for the AD server(s) to catch up, and re-add it to the domain. We needed to do that with clients, both Mac and PC regularly, before we finally dropped the WINS servers. (Hallelujah! finally we could purge the last Win98 machines! Huzzah!) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
