[Samba] Solved - Re: Win10 SMB question

[Robert Moskowitz]

Sigh.

It is DNS that I left out.  On the test system, I patched hosts file.  
Then I forget that in my notes.

Just need to fix my DNS zone files and take out the hosts patch on that 
test system.

Goodnight.

On 2/20/22 20:04, Robert Moskowitz via samba wrote:
> I have been running SAMBA3 on a ClearOS6 server for some 10+ years. 
> Past time to move up in the world.  Plus that drive has been going 
> 24/7 all this time and I am getting worried.  SMART still gives it a 
> good health OK, but...
>
> So I bought a QNAP server with the latest and greatest (at least from 
> them) SAMBA4.
>
> It is up and running and my Win10 notebook is working just fine with 
> accessing shares using a login in script at startup.
>
> Now the challenge here is that the old and new servers are both named 
> HOMEBASE.  They are on different VLANs.
>
> On a Win10 system that had been using the old HOMEBASE for a couple 
> weeks (brand new Win10 setup), using File Manager to browse and 
> connect to the shares, I am having problems.
>
> I switched this system to the new VLAN and File Manager Network Browse 
> is not showing the new HOMEBASE.
>
> From a command window, "net view \\HOMEBASE" fails with a network error.
> But "net view \\ipv4addr" works and shows all the shares.
> I setup the login script to use the IPv4addr rather than the server 
> name and got things working, but...
>
> I suspect there is some cached credentials for the old HOMEBASE, but I 
> cannot find them to get this working via the server name.  I did some 
> googling and found one reference to clearing server credentials, but 
> no change.
>
> Any pointers?
>
> thanks
>
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