On 25/05/06 09:57:45, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
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.
That all works.
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 ?
I was using names which were listed in My Network Places. I've now tried IP addresses instead of names and that works!
What would suddenly cause the names to stop working?
Just curious about that. If I have to use IP address instead of name then I don't mind as long as it works.
Thanks Wayne.