[Fwd: Problems accessing hiden shares]

[John Rooke]

John Rooke wrote:

> Thaks for the reply.
>
> It does not seem to be any of the suggestions you made:
>
> I am trying to access shares on one NTW 4.0 PC from another NTW4.0 PC in a
> domain where the PDC is Samba 2.1-prealpha. I try to access a known share
> \\neilp\cdrom and this does not work. It also does not work on hidden shares
> e.g. \\neilp\c$. I get the same error message each time:-(
>
> I can, however, see all the shares on both our Samba servers (Linux PDC and
> SCO OpenServer ordinary domain member).
>
> Help!
>
> John.
>
> tschweikle at FIDUCIA.de wrote:
>
> > john.rooke <john.rooke at lpsystems.com> wrote:
> >
> > >Hi
> > >
> > >We use samba-2.1-prealpha on SuSE Linux 6.0 as a PDC with a network of
> > >NT Workstation 4.0 PC's.
> > >
> > >When I try and access a PC hidden share from my NT Workstation e.g.
> > >\\pc1\c$ I get a message 'The network path was not found.". I am set up
> > >as a Domain Admins user in User Manager For Domains so it should be OK.
> > >
> > >What am I missing?
> >
> > With the error message given, there are three possebilities:
> >
> > 1. Are you trying to access the mentioned share on your samba
> >    box? If, the answer is easy: it doesn't exist there. Samba
> >    only shares what is given in 'smb.conf'.
> >
> > 2. If trying to access this on an other NT box. Have a look
> >    if it is realy shared there. One might have made registry
> >    entrys to have this box not share these normaly default
> >    shares or just stoped sharing these by hand from Server-
> >    Manager
> >
> > 3. If the share you want to access is on a Win9x box --- it
> >    might not even be running neccessary services, thus not
> >    sharing anything at all.
> >
> > --
>
> --
> John Rooke
> Director
> L&P Systems Limited
> john.rooke at lpsystems.com

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John Rooke
Director
L&P Systems Limited
john.rooke at lpsystems.com