Folks, I'm having a problem reconnecting to my LAN after having been connected and then rebooting. The problem looks like a Windows-oriented problem, and since you're the best Windows experts around, after the denizens of MS, I'm hoping you can help me. I'm running a Samba server (SUSE 9.3 and Samba 3.0.22pre1) on a 2-subnet LAN, with a Win2k PC on one subnet and an XP laptop on the other. When I boot up the server and then the two windows devices at the start of a day, everything comes up just fine, the server appears in Network Neighborhood and in Explorer on both Windows devices, and I have access to my shares normally. However, my problem is this: if I have occasion to reboot either (or both) Windows devices after having successfully formed the LAN, I can't get back to my shares except through some convoluted machinations, and the server no longer appears in NN or in Explorer. For instance, when I run START|RUN|\\lserver0\<share>, I get access to that share. When I run, from a DOS command line, net view \\lserver0, I get a listing of all the shares to which I'm supposed to have access. Net use \\lserver0\<share> returns a successful completion message. I get this behavior on both devices, and whether I cold reboot or log off one user and log on another. As I said, this acts like a Windows thing, rather than a general network problem (although I really have no hard data or knowledge with which to substantiate that). Do any of you have any ideas about how to pursue and correct this? Thanks Eric Hines There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. --Bertrand Russell
On Monday 16 January 2006 02:01, Eric Hines wrote:
However, my problem is this: if I have occasion to reboot either (or both) Windows devices after having successfully formed the LAN, I can't get back to my shares except through some convoluted machinations, and the server no longer appears in NN or in Explorer. For instance, when I run START|RUN|\\lserver0\<share>, I get access to that share. When I run, from a DOS command line, net view \\lserver0, I get a listing of all the shares to which I'm supposed to have access. Net use \\lserver0\<share> returns a successful completion message. I get this behavior on both devices, and whether I cold reboot or log off one user and log on another.
Sounds like you have you setup lmhosts and hosts on the windows boxes. -- Regards, Graham Smith
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