[newbie] smbclient problem on 9.2 solved- It was the NIC

[Pat Patterson]

I have been trying to get samba fully functional for a couple of months now 
and it has been driving me crazy. My internet connection worked. The Samba 
server worked but for some unknown reason that I researched thoroughly, 
only some of the machines on my network could be reached from the linux box.

Finally just for the heck of it I disabled the onboard  nic (ASUS 
a7v600-3COM 3C940 )and put in another.
 I was so proud of the on board nic because it was my first attempt at 
installing something that was not in RPM form. Oh well.  Anyhow, this is a 
great board for linux but the Asus supplied 3com2000 driver is either 
partially bad or I did not install it right.

Thought I would just add this to the record for future reference for others.


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