Samba and XP SP2 no love

Information (Erin Hughes) information at hugedesigns.net
Thu Aug 18 13:04:16 UTC 2005


Mogens Kjaer wrote:

> 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
>
either way works I just happened to include that example

Erin




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