[Tfug] Accessing shared folder

[Ronald Sutherland]

Are you using M$ domain server and dhcp, if so make sure the IP address 
of that PC is in the name server correctly. To this day that is always 
screwed up at the corp I work at, unfortunately no one can fix it, on 
the plus side it no longer affects my work. I first noticed the problem 
at home on my DIY educator network (Win 2k), the only fix I found was to 
assign a PC to an address with the DHCP management tool. I still see the 
problem where I work and I think they moved to Winblows 2003 (not sure). 
I'm guessing DHCP is not cleaning up used names from the name server 
when it moves them. I think the samba client gets IP address from the 
name server, M$ has some other tricks to get the address for a name, so 
they may work while your Samba client fails.

Brad Becker wrote:
> I'm using Kubuntu and have a home network, 1 linux box, 3 windoze.
>
>  From the linux box, in the location bar of Konqueror, when typing:
>
> smb:/ - displays the 'workgroup' icon
>
> smb://workgroup/ - displays all computers on the network
>
> smb://nameofpc1/ - displays the shared folders
>
> smb://nameofpc2/ - displays the shared folders
>
> So far so good.  However,
>
> smb://nameofpc3/ - displays a "Timeout on Server" error message.
>
> If 'nameofpc3' is replaced with the actual IP address then no problem,
> I can see/access the shared folders.
>
> So it appears samba isn't associating this particular pc's name with the  
> proper IP?
> Solution?
>
> - Brad Becker
>
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