I recently reinstalled Linux on my fileserver (RedHat 7.2), which was running Samba (v 2.2.1a). Now, trying to reconfigure Samba back to its original state (silly me didn't keep a copy of the conf file) I've run into a problem. My win98 machines can't find the Samba server by name, but they can by number. By this I mean:
On a Linux desktop, smbclient -L //marvin/ works as expected. No problems there. However on a win98 desktop, ping marvin nbtstat -A 10.0.0.1 net view \\10.0.0.1 all work as expected, but nbtstat -a marvin net view Network Neighborhood fail or don't display the server, and net view \\marvin and typing \\marvin into Explorer don't work at first, but once I do a net view \\10.0.0.1 they do. This all seems very odd to me, my guess is that it has something to do with NetBIOS name resolution, but I'm not sure and I wouldn't know how to correct it anyway. Can someone give me a pointer as to what might be the problem? Thanks, Tim Bates -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba