I was asked to look into a client's problem where they have a mixed environment of fairly new Macs and Windows XP boxes. Apparently a network peer to peer sharing setup was done and one particular iMac was happily sharing it's files and accessing Windows XP shares for several days. Then the Mac got rebooted and after that although the XP box could read shares from the Mac, the Mac can't seem to see the XP box. I was able to determine that the Mac could see other Macs in the office and could ping the XP box but clicking on the Network folder wouldn't show any reachable XP boxes. I could see a few machines (including one PC) in the "Local" folder but none of the machines in the Workgroup folder could be accessed. The Apple support page mentions problems accessing PCs using Microsoft SMB shares after 10.2 and suggests mounting them by using the Finder to access the PCs using the string smb:\\server\sharename. Anyone run across this problem?
When I got back to my office I fired up my SuSe 9.0 system and it seems to work fine. I know that the Mac uses Samba 3.x but I was a bit confused as to how Samba client works on a Mac. The only daemon I saw running was smbd. -Alex _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
