On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 09:29 +0100, Barry Samuels wrote:
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.
On the desktop do a smbclient -L (ipaddress of desktop)
You could also try it with 127.0.0.1 but I am not sure Samba always binds to the loopback interface. This should list the services available (enter the samba password for the user you ran smbclient as if prompted) If that works then there is a good chance samba is working.
Now from the Windows machine are you connecting via by browsing from "My Network places" or are you punching UNC path into a shortcut(i.e do you have a shortcut pointing to \desktop\share). If you are browsing to the shares try a UNC path in the run box instead, do you use name lookups or are you doing this all by IP address ?
XP is a lot happier if it's in the same workgroup as the server.
XP firewall ? Although in it's default configuration it shouldn't be stopping you accessing shares.
Norton etc on the laptop ? I know you haven't changed anything but Norton Internet Security doesn't need any help to bugger itself up and start (silently) blocking legitimate traffic.