[Samba] Lost All Win95 connections to Samba

[Nanni X]

Hi Douglas,
what do you think about a switch (or hub, of course) failure?
Did you test the low level connection? Perhaps you can start with a ping 
from w95 to any other station and vice versa.

Let me know

NanniX

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas D Germann Sr" <76066.515 at CompuServe.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 2:10 AM
Subject: [Samba] Lost All Win95 connections to Samba


> Hi--
>
> Last night I shut down my network for the thunderstorms going through the 
> area,
> and unplugged it all. When I booted up this morning, I had no Win95 
> connection
> to my samba server.
>
> My setup: Ubuntu 6.06 server, running samba 3.0.22. 3 Ubuntu workstations, 
> 1
> WinXP Pro, 2 Win95 boxes. The Ubuntu boxes mount the same directories as 
> the
> Win boxes, using cifs.
>
> What I have tried: checking log files in /var/log/samba--nothing even 
> seems to
> mention login attempts by either Win95 station. Same for syslog and
> /var/log/messages.
>
> The server and the two win95 boxes can ping each other. One Win95 box can 
> be
> accessed via vnc. Two of the Win boxes can ping google.com (the one that 
> cannot
> rarely uses an internet connection, so I might not have changed things 
> around on
> it when I got my router a while back). So the network connections are 
> working.
>
> Rebooted the server. Rebooted one of the Win95 boxes multiple times.
>
> Tried mapping drive letters to the server. Got this: the network name is 
> either
> incorrect or on a network to which you do not have full access.
>
> I am able to login to the server directly and through other connections, 
> one of
> which is an Ubuntu workstation, using the same login name. So the user and
> password is working.
>
> The WinXP box has had no trouble accessing the samba files, opening, 
> reading,
> editing, saving. All is normal.
>
> The Win95 boxes allow me to login to the particular W95 computer, but then 
> when
> the screen comes up about logging in to samba, it says a connection cannot 
> be
> found.
>
> I have made no changes in any box (Oh!--except I did do the updated files 
> that
> came up on Update Manager on my Ubuntu workstation this morning--nothing 
> on any
> other box) since last night. It is unlikely that I have done anything on 
> the
> server since the last time I rebooted it--but it is not impossible.
>
> So how would you go about trouble shooting this? The two Win95 boxes are 
> at the
> moment essential to us, in our production environment.
>
> Thanks!
>
> :- Doug.
>
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