[Samba] Re: Network Path could not be found on HP with XP

[Daniel Feenberg]

Problem was an HP EPC-43 that interacted with Windows shares, but couldn't
mount Samba exported shares, for which it always reported "Network path
could not be found".

Turns out that HP ships the machine with a registry entry setting the
"Node Type" to "Peer to Peer", and this made the Samba share invisible to
the HP system under the netbios name. It was visible if we used the DNS
name of the Samba server (something we didn't know when I posted the
original query). The cure was to remove the superfluous registry entry.
Here are details in case anyone is interested:

>From mohan at nber.org Thu Mar 14 16:59:39 2002

> This is what we found that fixed the problem.  The new WinXP pc from
> HP was configured to negotiate peer-to-peer which looks for a WINS
> server to resolve a NetBIOS name.  Since there is no WINS server the
> HP was not finding it.  Samba sends its share thru the NetBIOS name.  
> Here is the fix for it:

> 1)To check whether it is peer-to-peer: From command prompt, give
> ipconfig /all command.  Look for value of "Node Type"
> (b)roadcast,(p)eer-to-peer, (m)ixed,(h)ybrid are the choices).  It
> comes up as "unknown" if nothing is set.
>
> 2) Regedit. (on a WinXP, Win2000, WinNT)
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/Netbt/Parameters>
>
> (On a Win95)
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/VxD/MSTCP
>
> Look for 2 keys: NodeType or DhcpNodeType.  Both take DWORD numeric
> values.  The values are 1=b-node;2=p-node;4=m-node;8=h-node
>
> Just delete any entries to these 2 keys.  The default according to
> MSoft web site is b-node (broadcast), although in ipconfig /all, Node
> Type comes up as "unknown".
>
> The other effect of this is that it makes NetBUI redundant for
> browsing shares any more, and absence of NetBUI makes the system
> reboot much faster.
>
> -- Mohan