Alan wrote:
Another thing to check would be to if you can connect to the share (from
the XP machines) by IP. If you can connect by IP but not by name, your
name lookups might not be working.
# netstat -pan | grep nmbd, you should see it bound to 137 and 138.
then you can test your lookups with
# nmblookup -B 1.2.3.255 mybrokenserver
Hope some of that helps.
I'll have to try this on my Samba server. Short story, I had two, a development server and
now the real server. The development was called LSServer, while the real one was called
LSServer2. When I was done with development, and ready to deploy the app on the real
server, I switched the names.
Now, the development server works fine and can be accessed by name - LSServer2. The real
one can only be initially accessed by IP, but once logged in, you can access the mapped
drives, etc. by server name - LSServer. It's rather annoying.
PGA
(Yea, I know, I should have used different names for the servers in the
beginning.)
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