Not really a Debian issue but maybe someone can help me out here. There are two computers here, for the sake of discussion called A and B. B runs Samba 2.0.7a on Potato. A is multi-boot.
When booted to native NT4 SP6a with PlainTextPassword set A can see B and access B's shares perfectly. When booted to Linux, SMBCLIENT can see B's shares, use them and can also NFS mount them. BUT, when I run NT4 SP6a in a VMWare VM the VM can see the host, can see a Win98 system also on the network but can't see B nor map a share using NET VIEW: attempts fail with an error 53, name not found. Network Neighbourhood is also missing B, but the stange thing is that after a while (where "while" seems indeterminate!) B appears in Network Neighbourhood but it's shares cannot be seen. There are no errors logged by smbd or nmbd on B but the problem "feels" like some sort of name resolution problem; though clearly not DNS since the VM can ping B by name. PlainTextPassword is set since the VM can map drives from the host's Samba. SMBCLIENT on B can get to the VM's shares so B in able to "see" A's VM by name. I've installed many NT4/Samba systems in my time but I've never seen this, anyone any ideas? Cheers, Robin Collins