I'll eventually be trying this, thanks.  But I'm hoping it doesn't have to get 
this ugly yet.



-----Original Message-----
From: t...@tms3.com [mailto:t...@tms3.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 3:48 PM
To: Hodges, Robert CTR USAF AFMC 520 SMXS/MXDEC
Cc: Chris Smith; samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Need Help Getting Windows XP To Use Samba Properly





        Excellent information, thank you.
        
        Unfortunately, none of it solved my problem.
        

Start sniffing the machine as you do a "Network Neighborhood" search.  You 
might also check and see just where and how lookups are being done for NETBios 
from an XP box command terminal

nbtstat -r

which will tell you how lookups are being done.  Might lead you to a culprit.




        I see a lot of "The specified network name is no longer available" 
error messages all over the internet from Linux users, and none of the very few 
solutions I have come across have worked for me.
        
        Anybody else able to chime in and take a guess as why my XP box is 
having a problem talking to my Solaris/Samba box? Again, Win2K has no problems 
talking to the Samba box - it's just XP.
        
        Refresh: This error happens when you try to browse using "My Network 
Places" in the desktop. Mapping works fine, access works fine. Browsing is what 
fails in XP. I need this to work or I'm looking at a huge and expensive 
documentation change effort that few would understand.
        
        Still desperate for help on this. This problem happens with WinXP right 
out of the box, we have nothing weird installed.
        
        Help!
        
        
        
        -----Original Message-----
        From: Chris Smith [mailto:smb...@chrissmith.org] 
        Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 12:45 PM
        To: Hodges, Robert CTR USAF AFMC 520 SMXS/MXDEC
        Cc: John Drescher; samba@lists.samba.org
        Subject: Re: [Samba] Need Help Getting Windows XP To Use Samba Properly
        
        On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Hodges, Robert CTR USAF AFMC 520
        SMXS/MXDEC <robert.hodges....@hill.af.mil> wrote:
        

                Other details:  I do not use a DNS server, I use the hosts file 
in XP.
                


        Yes, but NetBIOS desires the lmhosts file. See my ancient (but still
        valid) scribblings here:
        http://realcomputerguy.com/networksetup.htm#hosts
        
        Chris
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