CDE Francis wrote:
> My office has an NT server with 2 shares, one of which has
> a space in the name. Sharity refuses to see either share
> on that server, and throws NetBIOS errors when I try to
> connect manually in the Configuration window.
>
> Sharity successfully connects to other servers on the network.
>
> Using "Go to Server" in the Finder can connect to the non-space
> share on my NT, but not the space share. The only way I've
> connected to it is using mount_smbfs in Terminal. However, the
> Finder refuses to display that mount unless I eject any shares
> I have through Sharity.
>
> Suggestions?
Sharity SHOULD handle spaces in share names fine. If the space character is
the cause of the problem, it should affect only one of the shares, not the
other.
The netbios error you get when you try to connect manually could bring us
more information. This might be a mismatch of the name under which you
access the server and the name it thinks it has. Sharity calls the server by
its name (contrary to other clients) which allows the implementation of a
kind of "virtual hosting" on the server. Samba implements this for anonymous
printer sharing.
Please do the following:
1. Check the actual netbios error. If it is "session refused", there is a
name mismatch.
2. Check the host name configured on the server and try to access the
server with exactly this name.
3. Check whether host or share names are excessively long (the limit is
somewhere close to 14 characters for host names, I think).
4. Check the file /var/log/system.log for potential error messages. You
can see a realtime view of this file in a Terminal window with
tail -100f /var/log/system.log
This will show the most recent 100 lines and display lines as the are
added.
Regards, Christian.
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Dipl.-Ing. Christian Starkjohann
Objective Development
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