[Samba] Samba + WinXP Home

[Eero Volotinen]

Mumia W.. wrote:
> On 11/19/2009 07:18 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>> Mumia W.. wrote:
>>
>>> Here are the responses:
>>> ==> net view \\192.168.0.5
>>> System error 1231 has occurred.
>>>
>>> The network location cannot be reached. For information about network 
>>> troubleshooting, see Windows Help.
>>
>> Is samba server really up and running ?
>>
> 
> Yes. And the firewall lets any traffic through too.
> 
> Oh, and Gaiseric, I forgot to mention that smbclient also fails to 
> contact the XP shares if I use the XP machine's IP address. IOW, this 
> fails too:
> 
> smbclient -N -L //server-ip-address
> 
> And it has the same type of error message; it says "Called name not 
> present."
> 

See the: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304040

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Eero