couldn't find service [talks, player32]

[Ed Maher]

Here's the info:

    1) the user is using Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
            - many other folks are using the same OS (it's
                the standard desktop system at our site)

    2) the username/password isn't an issue because I
            have security=share and the share is set up
            with 'guest ok = yes'.  All users connecting to
            this share are coming in through the 'guest'
            account that I have added.

    3) N/A for the same reason as in '2)'

Note that the user IS able to access the share, i.e., he can
map it and see it's contents.  It is only during the execution
of the Windows application does the error appear in the
log file.  Also, he is able to run the application directly on
his PC from the CDROM drive on his PC; i.e., it works
when SAMBA is not being used.

My next step will likely be to mount the CDROM (that has
the application) on an NT server system and have him attempt
to run it that way.  If this works, then it's definitely an
incompatibility with SAMBA and his PC - I just don't know
how to track it down.

If it'll help, I can create a log file of the error with debug=5.
I'm not sure what extra information I'll get with this.

Thanks!

-Ed


"MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)" wrote:

> Hi Ed,
> Tell us a bit more about the user that CANNOT get this to work;
> for instance -
> 1. is he using the same version of windows that a user that CAN
>    get it to work?
> 2. is the username and password that he is using to access the share
>    valid, or is he perhaps getting in as guest?  You should be able
>    to verify this by turning up the log level and looking at the
>    debug log for that client.
> 3. is the unix user he is mapped to in the same group(s) as the
>    user that CAN make it work?
>
> Hope this helps,
> Don
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Maher [mailto:ewm at fpk.hp.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 2:26 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: couldn't find service [talks, player32]
>
> I'm running SAMBA 2.0.7 on HP-UX 11.0.  I have successfully
> shared a drive and mapped it on Windows 95, NT 4.0 and 2000
> systems.  I have copied a particular Windows Executable onto the
> HP-UX hard disk and can execute them from the mapped drives.
>
> However, when one of my users tries to execute a particular app
> (one that others are able to access just fine), it fails to do anything
> and the following shows up in the smbd log file:
>
> [2000/12/19 13:27:53, 0] smbd/service.c:(213)
>   <machine-name> (IP-addr) couldn't find service talks
> [2000/12/19 13:27:53, 0] smbd/service.c:(213)
>   <machine-name> (IP-addr) couldn't find service player32
>
> Note that I have stripped out the machine name & IP information
> in the above message.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Ed Maher