RE: [cobalt-users] XP/Samba/Qube3/Frustration

[Mike Kelley <mkelley@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:21 AM 02/11/2003 -0800, Rick Eames wrote:
>Okay, so I can go to "run" and type in the name of my qube, which in
>this case is "www" and it will come up.  I then double-click "home" and
>that's where I'm asked for my name and password.  I type it in.  Pause.
>Up it comes with the password dialog again, this time putting the name
>of my machine in front of my login name (MYMACHINE\username).  I try
>every combo in the world, and it doesn't work.
>
>So I'm at a loss.  I can mount OSX samba shares just fine.  I can FTP to
>the machine just fine.  I just can't mount it as a samba share.
>
>Sun is of no help on this.  Their knowledgebase is not working (last
>night it wasn't at least) and I seem to be the only person having this
>issue, so I'm at a loss.  This worked just fine in my old Qube2, btw.
>
>*sigh*
>
>-------------
>
>Yeah they want to do away with it because it sucks and you don't need it
>because it hammers your network.  I have my XP machine only running ip
>mounting shares on my qube 3.  What are you using for dns, because
>xp/2000
>rely on dns to resolve the names of the computers on your lan and if you
>don't have dns setup with your comuter names good luck.  My suggesstion
>would be to setup dns on your qube , then point your xp machine to that
>dns
>server.

I am managing a small mixed (9x XP pro) LAN with no problems mounting smb
shares. Don't remember doing anything special to access smb share on the
qube 3 pro. Set it up through the qube GUI. User names and passwords are
the same for win and qube. Can browse or map drives using "net use". Hand
edited hosts files on win and qube. No WINS. No domains, just workgroups.
HTH. Which xp are you running home/pro?

Recently installed a print server primarily for the pc users. I thought I
would configure the qube last since it would only rarely print. I was
surprised that after using the GUI to add the printers that they
immediately showed up in network neighborhood/places.

Mike Kelley
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