Try editing the "LMHOSTS" file in your C:\WINDOWS directory and place an entry
in it for your Samba Server:
192.168.2.1 Samba_Server_Name
Then re-boot. That might do the trick.
Petey wrote:
> After spending the last four days trying to get SAMBA running with shares
> for win 95 clients, I am appealing to the greater net community. Here's my
> situation. I've tried multiple times to try and get SAMBA running, and I
> can't get anything to pop up in the win 95 network neighborhood. All tests
> I've done using smbclient have all come out fine, indicating I should be
> able to mount a share. I had it running under Mandrake 6.0 before, but I
> got a new hard drive and reinstalled and now nothing works. I've made all
> of the correct entries in the /etc/hosts, /etc/lmhosts, and /etc/smb.conf
> files for a basic share, but still to no avail. I've tried on multiple win
> 95 clients with different IP addresses and still nothing. I use both SWAT
> and a text editor to edit the files and testparm to check and make sure
> they are valid. Does anyone have any idea of what I can do to get a basic
> server up and running. I basically want to share a network drive with win
> 95 clients. Is there a possibility that a mistake in one of my basic IP
> config files would affect SAMBA in such a manner while leaving the rest of
> the main internet connectivity (ftp, http, etc.) usable? Any and all help
> is appreciated.
>
> Jason Peterson
