Unable to connect to Samba

[John Malmberg]

Tim Calvert <CALVERT at Marshall.education>
> 
> We're running Samba v1.9.17p4 on OpenVMS Alpha 7.2-1 with Multinet v4.2-A-X
> and trying to connect from a Win95 box. It's been working for years, but as
> of a few days ago, we get the following message:
> 
> Error 55: The specified resource is not available. The computer that shared
> the resource might have been turned off, or the permissions might have been
> changed. For more information, contact our network administrator.
> 
> There have been no recent configuration changes to anything on either the
> VMS server of the PC. Both machines are on the network. I can ping the PC
> from the VMS box and I can ping the VMS box from the PC.
> 
> I know very little about Samba mangement, so I don't have any idea where
> to start looking.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I would start by running the tests in diagnostics.txt.

If you did not find it in your distribution, you can go to 
http://www.samba.org  [select your closest mirror] and then go to the 
documentation link.

There should be a link to a HTML version of it.

You can use the SMBCLIENT program to test access from the username the 
PC user is assigned.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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