Well the strange part is I can login on the login screen butI cannot mount the folder I have made on the Unix station. All WINS servers are working and the servers is up. I am just doing something wrong when I mount I think.
-Jeff -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Christian Starkjohann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sendt: 17. september 2002 18:28 Til: Jeff Davis; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Emne: Re: [Sharity-talk] Mounting question... Jeff Davis wrote: > I have been running Sharity on a single unix machine with connection to one > single Win2K machine. Now today I can�t get connection to my Win machine. > It usually helped, in the past, to just restart the machine, this would in > turn restart Sharity. This would not work this time. I keep getting > "Netbios name lookup failure" error. My netbios settings are correct. > Anyone have any idea? In order to connect to a machine, Sharity must resolve the computer's name to an internet address. In CIFS, this is done in one of two ways: 1. If you have a WINS server, a request is sent to this WINS server asking for the IP address for a particular name. The WINS server should reply with the address. 2. If there is no WINS server, the request is broadcast to all computers on the local network segment. They all compare the name in the request with their own name. The computer which detects a match replies with its own IP address. The error "Netbios name lookup failure" means that this name to IP address resolution failed. If you have a WINS server configured, it means that the WINS server is probably down. If not, the server you want to connect to is down or can not be reached with a broadcast. Some related information about name resolution: If the netbios lookup fails, Sharity will try to resolve the name through the Unix resolver (unless you have disabled DNS lookups). This means that entries in /etc/hosts and the DNS server will be considered for the name to address translation. If you can't get name resolution to work at all, you can configure an explicit IP address for the server in the Sharity GUI, too. Simply add the name of the server to the "CIFS Servers" section and configure an IP address in expert mode. Regards, Christian. -- Dipl.-Ing. Christian Starkjohann Objective Development mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.obdev.at/ _______________________________________________ Sharity-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe see http://at.obdev.at/mailman/listinfo/sharity-talk _______________________________________________ Sharity-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe see http://at.obdev.at/mailman/listinfo/sharity-talk
