[Samba] several servers, one xp box

[george lockwood]

i'm setting up some older boxes i have for repetitive processing
of files sent from an xp box. the older boxes are linux and set
up running mandriva 2007.1 spring, each with samba 3.0.24
server running. i also have a macpro in this small network. the
macpro has no problem logging in to all of the samba boxes at
the same time. xp (home) can only see one at a time though.
if i turn on the xp box it seems to randsomly select which of the 
samba boxes it will choose to have accessible. 

each of the samba boxes has a name like 'processing-01',
each numbered sequentially so each is unique. as i say, this 
all seems to work fine from the mac. 

if i only turn on one samba box at a time i have no problem
seeing each. it's when there's more than one on at a time 
that i realize i can only see one. in other words, each samba 
box is accessible to xp, but only if it is the only samba box on 
the network

i can only ping the first samba box, processing-01. the others
all time out. 

please help. let me know what other info might be useful in
trying to get the xp side running as smoothely as the mac side 
does.

thanks,
BabaG

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