[Samba] Samba / Vista Problem
William O'Higgins Witteman
william.ohiggins at utoronto.ca
Tue Apr 8 19:24:43 GMT 2008
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 03:08:51PM -0400, Wes Deviers wrote:
>On Tue 8 Apr 2008 1:51:27 pm William Witteman wrote:
>> I have a problem - I am trying to set up shared folders on a Debian etch
>> machine, and then access them from a bunch of Vista Business machines.
>> I set up a very basic smb.conf, and when I request the hostname of the
>> Linux machine, I am prompted for a username and password. I enter them,
>> and I see the shares that I expect to see. If I attempt to create a new
>> folder, however, I get the following error message:
>>
>
>Can you do it via IP address? ( \\10.10.2.20 style?)
Yes! Holy crap! I've been bashing my head against this for ages!
So... how do I fix my config to let this thing take a non-numeric IP?
Thanks!
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yours,
William
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