[Samba] Need Help Getting Windows XP To Use Samba Properly

[Hodges, Robert CTR USAF AFMC 520 SMXS/MXDEC]

Excellent information, thank you.

Unfortunately, none of it solved my problem.

I see a lot of "The specified network name is no longer available" error messages all over the internet from Linux users, and none of the very few solutions I have come across have worked for me.

Anybody else able to chime in and take a guess as why my XP box is having a problem talking to my Solaris/Samba box?  Again, Win2K has no problems talking to the Samba box - it's just XP.

Refresh:  This error happens when you try to browse using "My Network Places" in the desktop.  Mapping works fine, access works fine.  Browsing is what fails in XP.  I need this to work or I'm looking at a huge and expensive documentation change effort that few would understand.

Still desperate for help on this.  This problem happens with WinXP right out of the box, we have nothing weird installed.

Help!



-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Smith [mailto:smb_77 at chrissmith.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 12:45 PM
To: Hodges, Robert CTR USAF AFMC 520 SMXS/MXDEC
Cc: John Drescher; samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Need Help Getting Windows XP To Use Samba Properly

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Hodges, Robert CTR USAF AFMC 520
SMXS/MXDEC <robert.hodges.ctr at hill.af.mil> wrote:
> Other details:  I do not use a DNS server, I use the hosts file in XP.

Yes, but NetBIOS desires the lmhosts file. See my ancient (but still
valid) scribblings here:
http://realcomputerguy.com/networksetup.htm#hosts

Chris