Your Win2k machine might be trying to be the domain controller, but unable, because Linux is taking over that job. Also, SMB is such a flaky service that it just refuses to work sometimes... or more often than not. I've had that problem millions of times. It's just the way it is. :-(
As for the registry restoration, one used to be able to restore the Win9x (and WinME too, I think) registry using either regedit or scanreg. I don't remember which. But one of 'em had a /restore option. Run the tool under DOS, and you get a text menu that lists all the backed up registries, and you can select the one you want to restore. My WinXP doesn't have scanreg so I guess they took that tool out in the NT kernel but maybe Win2K has it. NT Likes to do things graphically so maybe they have a graphical tool instead. Probably not very helpful, but it gives you something to think about. -Mark PS: If you quote my e-mail, please take my e-mail address off the "On [date] [mark's e-mail address] wrote:" line. Thanks! On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 [PETER] wrote: > dear jeff, mike and jan, > > new information. i should mention this, because it's relevent. we have > three main computers: > > satan linux my main system. has printer. > navalle linux/win98 rhonda's main system / engineering stuff > lucifer linux/win2k my gaming machine / flash stuff > > recently i've been playing around with flash MX, so i made lucifer a > dual boot to run flash. here's the new information: > > samba is _already_ set up. i can browse satan's folders from win98 and > vice versa. samba works great between these two systems. > > here's the new information. out of curiosity, i booted up win98. not > only does samba still work (i can browse satan from win98), but in the > network neighborhood, i see: > > * satan (linux) > * navalle (win98) > * lucifer (win2k) > > all systems are browsable from win98. i can traverse the win2k > filesystem. works great. > > now i walk 2 feet over the win2k console. network neighborhood is > called "computers near me". > > i double click it, and get "workgroup is not accessible. the network > path was not found". it's my understanding that win2k should at least > list itself. > > therefore: > > i can browse linux from win98 > i can browse win98 from linux > > i can browse win2k from win98 > i can browse win2k from linux > > i can NOT browse win98 from win2k. > i can NOT browse linux from win2k. > > win2k is giving everyone permission to browse it's filesystem. however, > it doesn't know how to find other systems and cannot browse other > filesystems. > > mike, because samba works between linux and win98, that's why i said i > think the problem is the win2k system. something is definitely screwy > with the win2k system. > > this is a LOT more complicated than NFS!!! > > any ideas? > > pete -- Mark K. Kim AIM: markus kimius Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci PGP key available on the website PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
