On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 19:58 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > I've read all the help available on SAMBA available from GNOME. > > > > I've got an MSDOS (6.0) machine with MSCLIENT over TCP/IP running > > on it, and a Fedora Core 2 machine, using static IP addresses. > > Each machine can successfully ping the other. But when I try > > to establish a share connection from the MSDOS machine to the > > Linux machine, the MSDOS machine cannot find the Linux machine. > > > > JMCCARTY@AMD586 Q:\NET> net use * \\presario\tmp > > [several second pause] > > Error 53: The computer name specified in the network path cannot > > be located. > > Not much of a Samba user, but when I stuggled through getting it working > I found Swat was helpful. Some things only worked properly when > windbindd was running, check > > service winbind status ---- primary usage of winbindd is to obtain users/groups from Windows Domain Controller as if they were local accounts secondary usage of winbindd is to support Windows concept of nested groups. Neither apply to David's case...move on Craig
