From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 30 7:21:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.triad.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52D0E37B419 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 07:21:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from sager ([66.56.171.119]) by mail7.triad.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 30 Jan 2002 03:43:05 -0500 Message-ID: <01f401c1a96a$4b060dc0$2203a8c0@joplin.org> From: "Joe Joplin" To: "David Banning" , References: <20020129005338.A4190@sympatico.ca> Subject: Re: problem with samba from one windows box Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 03:44:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It sounds like you have a physical connection problem. Have you tried pinging the other boxes from you W98 box? Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Banning" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:53 AM Subject: problem with samba from one windows box > One windows 98 box only gives me an error trying to access the printers. > I get the network icon for the FreeBSD machine, but when I double click > on it, I get the windows error; > > \\D is not accessible. The computer or sharename could > not be found. Make sure you typed it correctly, and try again". > > Looking around the net for others who had similar problems; > I have tried doing a modification to the windows registry, recommended > my some, and also tried adding the FreeBSD hostname and IP to the > /windows/hosts and /windows/lmhosts files, recommended by others. > > I am now pretty sure that the problem is in the windows machine. > I brought in another win laptop and changed the login and the ip to the > same ones as the problem box and it worked fine. > > What may be a clue to the problem, > is that during windows boot, I get the 3-field password > window which is a login for a Microsoft network, which I just get an error > from. I don't understand that window, don't want it, > and I don't know how do get rid of it. > I don't have that login on my other windows boxes and they work fine. Then > I get the 2-field standard password, which is standard on my other win boxes. > > My next step was to get rid of the three window box that is giving me > a boot error, bringing at least the -boot- process to resemble the other > machines. > > Any thoughts on this would be helpful. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message