[Samba] smbclient can't find this new XP

[Joel Hammer]

This sounds like an XP configuration problem. Can't offer much help.
I am afraid to poke around at my xp workstation for fear of messing the
thing up. There must be an XP help group somewhere.

Joel

On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:50:34AM -0700, Paul Huffman wrote:
> No,  there's no wins server.  I have this XP in a weird halfway network state
> because I just can't get in the Microsoft mindset.   I set up TCP/IP manually,  and
> can reach all my samba drives and all the shares in PCs in my workgroup,  but the XP
> isn't really part of the workgroup.  The workgroup PCs don't find it in their
> workgroup list and the samba server smbclient can't hit it.  But when I go through
> the steps to use an XP wizard to join a workgroup,  the wizard appears to strip out
> tcp/ip and leaves the XP unconnected from the internet, the samba drives and the
> workgroup.  Or leaves the XP in a frozen state that won't shut down or restart,  or
> even refused several times to do System Restore.  And Microsoft is no. 1 in the
> world in OSs,  why is that?
> 
> Do I need to System Restore back to a point where I can first let a wizard add
> windows networking, then join a workgroup, then "connect to the internet"  which
> seems to be the MS way of adding TCP/IP?
> 
> Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> > Is there a wins server specificied in your smb.conf ?
> > Try looking up other hosts besides paulxp with the -R option if you aren't
> > sure.
> >
> > Joel
> >