Network name cannot be found errors

[Mark Haney]

Okay, are the home directories shared?  or are they a subdirectory of a
directory? Such as HOME?

If they are shared individually, make sure of 2 things, that in WINS they
names are listed with the proper hexcode on the end of the share name.  That
they are less than 16 characters and that the permissions are right.

If this doesn't help, give me as much info as you can and I am sure we can
work this out off-list.


-----Original Message-----
From: samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Colagio, Kevin
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:13 AM
To: 'Mark Haney'; Colagio, Kevin; 'samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org'
Subject: RE: Network name cannot be found errors



Heh...understandable question.

I can ping it and I currently have mappings to it on another client.
Additionally, it can be browsed to through the network neighborhood.  Shares
can be seen, but when the user tries to map into their home directory, they
get that error.  (Since their home directory is where they need to go, we
haven't bothered with the other shares....)

Thanks...

Kevin Colagio
kevin.colagio at usa.xerox.com
System Administrator and Perpetual Student

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Haney [mailto:mhaney at info4cars.com]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:04 AM
To: Colagio, Kevin; 'samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org'
Subject: RE: Network name cannot be found errors


Okay, stupid question but one I ask every time I see this or get asked about
it.  Can you ping it?  Lots of times, if you get this message you can't ping
it by name.  This points to either a WINS issue (corrupt DB or incorrect
mapping) or DNS or some kind of name resolution problem.  Sometimes, what I
do to just to keep from having to deal with it, is stick the name in the
HOSTS file and be done with it.  That always depends on the number of
clients you are supporting, but it is almost guaranteed to work.


-----Original Message-----
From: samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Colagio, Kevin
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 10:57 AM
To: 'samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org'
Subject: Network name cannot be found errors



We have Samba up and running with NT PDC or BDC doing the authorization.
Some people receive an error much like this one when trying to map to their
home directories:
  \\servername\kdc is not accessible.  The network name cannot be found.

The Unix and NT usernames are the same.
This only happens with some people, sometimes.

The client systems are running Windows NT 4.0 and the Samba server is a
Solaris 8 box.  The version of Samba is 2.0.7 .

Has anyone else run into this?

Does anyone have a solution?

If you need more info, feel free to ask.

Thanks in advance.

Kevin Colagio
kevin.colagio at usa.xerox.com
System Administrator and Perpetual Student