I have an IBM ThinkPad R51 less than a year old which came with Windows XP although I have Debian installed on it which is what I mostly use. However there is one Windows application, MapInfo, which I use occasionally and for which I have never found a Linux substitute.
I had the laptop set up to connect to my normal Linux (Debian Testing) desktop machine via Samba and was able to use it. Then two things happend.
1. I moved the mount point of the partition on the Linux machine to which the laptop, running Windows, connected. I changed the paths in smbd.conf and did think to restart Samba.
2. I also upgraded Debian Testing on my non-laptop machine.
Now the laptop won't even recognise that the Debian machine is there although it is connected to the network and I can ping the Debian machine.
My first thought was to look in the logs on the Debian machine for errors but there are no errors!
Where do I go from here to find which machine is the cause of the problem? I assume it must be the Debian desktop because that's the only one that's changed.
Both smbd and nmbd are running on the desktop.