Jeff Davis wrote:
> Ok I will attempt to explain this again. I have had Sharity running on a
> IRIX system connecting to one Win2K system on our network.
>
> I am totally UNIX illiterate but highy proficient with Windows, so I am
> using the GUI for set up of Sharity.
It's no problem if you are not a Unix expert, but in this case please be as
exact as possible. If something goes wrong, please describe EXACTLY what you
do and what the results are. Sharity for IRIX is not as user friendly as
e.g. the Mac OS X version, but you should still be able to get it running
without expert knowledge.
> I had Sharity running for over 9 months with no problems until 3 days ago
> where I lost connection to the PC. Usually when this happened before I
> could just restart Sharity and it would be fine.
This SHOULD NOT happen. To everyone: If you have to restart something to get
connectivity, PLEASE REPORT IT! And please describe the situation EXACTLY.
You say you restarted "Sharity". Do you mean that you stopped the daemon
with "/usr/local/sharity/sbin/sharity.init stop" and started it again, or do
you mean that you quitted the GUI application and started it again?
> Not this time. Now I cannot
> get the program to mount my folder on the IRIX in the Sharity Mounts section
> of the GUI. I can log into the servers and see the entire network with no
> problem in the CIFS Logins.
You mean that you click the "Login..." button and get a list of all servers?
This does not prove much. You must pick out your server from the list, click
"Login" and after providing name and password the server should be LISTED in
the logins list permanently. Once you get this far, the "Netbios name lookup
failure" should be impossible.
> The WINS setup is correct. When I attempt to
> mount the folder it keeps popping up with a login screen that keeps giving
> me a "Netbios name lookup failure" error.
>
> I have tried deleteing the mount folder and making a new with no luck. The
> system says I don't have permissions to this. When I go to the change
> permissions area, the system tells me that this folder is essential to the
> system and can't be removed. (This is also when logged into root).
"Netbios name lookup failure" can not be caused by a permission problem on
your local machine. [I know, you should never say "can not be" when
computers are involved, but I'm reasonably sure about this.]
Sharity requires that YOU own the folder where you mount (not root). It will
tell you if there is a permission problem.
I'm afraid I can't help you with setting permissions and creating folders
with the IRIX GUI. I have never seen or even used it...
> Any help here is greatly appreciated. Is there a place that explains setting
> up this program anywhere?? I must have seen one somewhere or I would never
> have gotten this set up in the first place. Where can I find such a manual?
> I only see how to install onto the system and command line system up. Is
> there a GUI setup somewhere??
You can find the manual at /usr/local/sharity/manual/01-index.html. But
since your installation worked until a couple of days ago, I doubt that the
installation is broken. Please don't play around too much, it's probably
more likely that you break more than you can fix in this way.
Brian had a couple of useful suggestions in an other post to this list. He's
right with the command shell: Many things are much easier to investigate
remotely through the commandline because you can copy/paste commands as you
have been told and you can copy/paste the output 1:1 to a mail.
So, please open a command shell window and make sure you can run Sharity
commands, e.g.:
cifslist
This should list all mounts and logins. Once you are sure this works, make
sure that you can reach your WINS server:
ping "ip-address of WINS server"
(substituting the IP address from Sharity's WINS setting, of course). Ping
will print a line every second, telling you how long the reply took or
giving an error message if no reply was received. You can stop it with ^C
(Control-c).
If this works, you can try to log in to your server with
cifslogin "servername"
(substituting the correct name again). Don't use "//servername" as Brian
suggested, you are expected to type the name only. Enter your remote
password when asked. If you get the "Netbios name lookup error" here, the
WINS server does not know the name you have been asking for.
Is it possible that your company has switched to a new WINS server and you
are still using the old address? Is samba installed on your machine? If
samba is installed, we could use samba's nmblookup tool to investigate this
further.
Regards, Christian.
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Dipl.-Ing. Christian Starkjohann
Objective Development
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