[Samba] Can mount shares but not "net use" them

[H. Wade Minter]

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On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Matt Easton wrote:

> Forgive me if I'm covering old ground, I'm not at my own computer and other 
> mail may have addressed some of this.
>
> try "net use L: \\192.168.1.10\sharename"
>
> Is wins enabled on the server?
>
> Is the wins server entered in the XP workstation's IP configuration
> (have to manually enter it if your DHCP server isn't going to be handing it 
> out)
>
> Are the WinXP boxes in fact members of the domain?
>
> If you can't use wins for some reason, you could edit the LMHOSTS file on the 
> XP box
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=150800
> (but, you don't want to go there is you can help it)
>
> on the windows box you can see what your computer is (or is not) seeing: 
> net view \\servername
> 	net view \\192.168.1.10
> 	net view /domain:domainname
>

I turns out that the problem was that the two problem machines (the only 
two dual-homed boxes, as it stands, which led me in the wrong direction), 
didn't have the "Workstation" service started.  Once I started that 
service on the XP workstation, they were able to do everything perfectly.

Grr.

Thanks for everyone on the list who provided direction.

- --Wade
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