Problems with Win98 clients...

David Collier-Brown davecb at canada.sun.com
Tue Jan 30 20:40:23 GMT 2001


Scott S. Nicholson wrote:
| About 75% of the time, when you boot a client and enter 
| login/password it'll try to connect to the server for several 
| seconds and then pop up a "The Network is Busy" message. Sometimes
| it'll manage to connect on the second mapped share, sometimes you 
| get a "Network Busy" message on that one, too.

	Sounds like the name service timing out: as
	an experiment, turn WINS on on the Samba
	server and see if the problem suddenly stops.

--dave
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