>Davide Guarisco wrote:
>> Sorry for the late reply...
>>
>>> Davide Guarisco wrote:
>>>> It happens from time to time that I cannot see the shares from a PC anymore.
>>>> Double-clicking on a PC from the CIFS browser shows an empty window (instead
>>>> of a window with aliases to the shres). The only workaround I have found is
>>>> to
>>>> reboot. This is clearly not acceptable. Is there another way to "restart"
>>>> Sharity without rebooting?
>>
>> Now it doesn't even work after rebooting...
>> Notice that I can mount a (presumably) Windows 2000 server with no problems.
>> Other PC can mount and see the same shares just fine, of course.
>
>I suspect that the problem is not related to rebooting your Mac. It was
>probably coincidence that rebooting changed anything in your previous
>attempts.
I agree.
>
>>>
>>> A couple of questions:
>>> - Are you runningn on Mac OS X or an other Unix?
>>
>> Mac OS X 10.1.4.
Now 10.1.5. No change.
> >
>>> - Have you entered the PC name manually in the "CIFS Servers" configuration?
>>> - Are the shares listed in a shell (Terminal window on Mac OS X) if you do a
>>> 'ls /Network/CIFS/servername/' or 'ls /CIFS/servername'?
>>
>> No, they are not listed. The PC name is listed, but the directory is empty.
>
>And you are sure that you are running the Sharity GUI application?
YES!
>
>And still an open question: Have you added this server manually to the "CIFS
>Servers" section? This DOES make an important difference.
If I add the server manually, it now shows up as a folder at the root of the CIFS
folder. But it's still empty.
> > Neither does mounting the share manually work. I am stuck.
>
>When you mount manually, you must get an error message. What does it say?
"Netbios name lookup failure. Error context: local machine."
No messages in the Console.
>
>Also, can you please look at the Console messages? Sharity may be logging
>errors there.
If I try to mount from the CIFS browser, I get no error message. A folder with the
machine name opens up, but it contains no shares. No console messages.
>
>Are you sure that the machine you want to connect to is Windows 98?
Yes.
The funny thing is that it used to work not long ago...
Davide
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