Ben, Clients are windows, yes.
Samba is running and functioning correctly. if you \\192.168.1.2 from explorer, u can see the shares just fine. Adam On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:38:41 +1100, Ben de Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > are your clients windows? were you running samba? > > On 07/01/2005, at 10:57 AM, Adam W wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I used to be able to get access to my linux box (mandrake 10.1) by > > just calling it by its name. I have always been able to do this > > without any config on the clients or the box (well except for > > 'hostname blah') > > > > But now i cannot seem to do that. The clients dont know about the > > linux box's name. > > > > Why isnt the box broadcasting its name to the other puters now? It > > *was* working, then all of a sudden, the next day it wasnt... and i > > didnt change any settings and security isnt set real high on the box > > (mandrake security setting) > > > > Any ideas?? > > > > Adam. > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
