Network Path not found

[Julian Sinclair]

Julian Sinclair wrote:

> All,
>
> We have had samba (2.0.0) running here for a number of years without any
> problems. However, we will soon be getting some windows 2000 machines
> added to the network and there will be need to upgrade to a newer
> version.
>
> In preparation for this move I decided to convert our current encryted
> passwords = no to yes as I am much happier having these things
> encrypted.
>
> I edited smb.conf and added the line encrypt passwords = Yes, killed the
> smbd and restarted it. Ran testparm to check the change (no problem).
> Tested the connection on my test machine which did not have the plain
> text registry hack on it and it was fine.
>
> Happy with the test I reverted back to no encryption and check with
> testparm to confirm.
>
> But, now I cannot connect to the samba server from the normal machines
> as when I try to browse from the Windows Exploreron NT SP5 I get the
> following error:
>
> "The network path was not found."
>
> Still works fine on Win98 machine here and I can still connect to other
> windows machines and samba servers here from the WINNt machines.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what has happened ?
>
> Julian

> All,
>
> Have continued playing with the setup here. Changed log level of samba to
>
> 10 but of course nothing is being added because the error is occuring
> even
> before the request gets to samba.
>
> Opened up command prompt on nt.
> did a tracert to the samba server -  no problems.
> did an nslookup to the samba server -  no problems.
>
> Tried using net use X: \\[fqdn]\d1
>
> Asked for password and connected without a problem. Even more confused
> now.
> For now this as least means that I can map drives as required but cannot
> browse the samba server from windows explorer. Am I missing something
> really obvious here ?
>
> Julian
>
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