Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 03:44:12 -0500 From: "Joe Joplin" <joejop@triad.rr.com> To: "David Banning" <david@skytrackercanada.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: problem with samba from one windows box Message-ID: <01f401c1a96a$4b060dc0$2203a8c0@joplin.org> References: <20020129005338.A4190@sympatico.ca>
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It sounds like you have a physical connection problem. Have you tried pinging the other boxes from you W98 box? Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Banning" <david@skytrackercanada.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:53 AM Subject: problem with samba from one windows box > One windows 98 box only gives me an error trying to access the printers. > I get the network icon for the FreeBSD machine, but when I double click > on it, I get the windows error; > > \\D is not accessible. The computer or sharename could > not be found. Make sure you typed it correctly, and try again". > > Looking around the net for others who had similar problems; > I have tried doing a modification to the windows registry, recommended > my some, and also tried adding the FreeBSD hostname and IP to the > /windows/hosts and /windows/lmhosts files, recommended by others. > > I am now pretty sure that the problem is in the windows machine. > I brought in another win laptop and changed the login and the ip to the > same ones as the problem box and it worked fine. > > What may be a clue to the problem, > is that during windows boot, I get the 3-field password > window which is a login for a Microsoft network, which I just get an error > from. I don't understand that window, don't want it, > and I don't know how do get rid of it. > I don't have that login on my other windows boxes and they work fine. Then > I get the 2-field standard password, which is standard on my other win boxes. > > My next step was to get rid of the three window box that is giving me > a boot error, bringing at least the -boot- process to resemble the other > machines. > > Any thoughts on this would be helpful. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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