Samba and XP SP2 no love

[Mogens Kjaer]

Information for Huge Designs wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am having ALOT of trouble getting samba working a FC4 system I admin.
> 
> I have 10 XP SP2 clients all trying to log into the server. If I go to map
> network drive I type the shares in like say \\apollo.local\common the
> server returns a request for a user name and password but even if I put
> the correct password in, it just pops back with user name and password.
> 
...
>   Samba name server APOLLO is now a local master browser for workgroup
> MYGROUP on subnet 192.168.11.200

Why do you connect to \\apollo.local when the (windows) name of the
server is apollo?

Mogens

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