[luau] Map network drive in 2000

[Nakashima]

I can't see the box in the Network Neighborhood. Is there something I'm  
missing? I'll try mapping to the IP address.
Thanks
--Peter

On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 05:59  PM,  
Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/HIDOE at notes.k12.hi.us wrote:

> Have you tried mapping it to the IP address? I find that WINS/DNS
> resolution doesn't always work well.
>
> For example I map drive R to \\165.248.31.123\public
>
> It may also be the kind of security setup on the Samba server.
>
> Google shows...
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> Ricky Bryce said:
>> Is anyone running Samba on a Linux machine, and trying to access a  
>> share
>> from Windows 2000?  I have been working with this for 2 days, and I  
>> got
>> SWAT to work just fine, and I can see the Linux machine in Network
>> Neighborhood, but when I double click the machine to get to the share
>> level, I get a message that the network path is invalid.  I also tried
>> this on an NT 4.0 machine and I get the same results.  If you have had
>> the same problem, please let me know!
>
> I have samba set up on various systems being accessed from every
> version of Windows from 95 on up.  Everything works great.
>
> If you want user-level security, you will need to enable password
> encryption on the samba side *or* hack the registry on every Windows
> box.  (Find the file ENCRYPTION.txt in the samba docs for more
> informatin.)
>
> If you don't care about security (if the shares on a box are going to
> be wide open), then it might be simpler to just set samba for
> share-level security.
>
> I've also found that it often makes life easier to force the samba box
> to be the master browser by setting "local master = yes", "os level =
> 33" (or some higher number),  and "preferred master = yes".  (Set all
> that, then restart samba.)  If you can see the box in the Network
> Neighborhood browse list, this *probably* isn't a problem.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Michael
>
> Nakashima <pnakashi at k12.hi.us>@videl.ics.hawaii.edu on 09/24/2003  
> 05:12:33
> PM
>
> Hi all,
> I'm having trouble getting a Win 2000 desktop to map a network drive
> (Linux share). I can do it in Win 98SE and Win NT. What's different in  
> Win
> 2000?
> --Peter