[luau] Map network drive in 2000

[Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/HIDOE at notes.k12.hi.us]

Your WINS or DNS server probably isn't setup or setup correctly. If Samba
is acting as your PDC, then you would probably want that to act as your DNS
server? I'm not too sure on that as I haven't reached that level yet.
However, I will be setting up a PDC next week for a few schools. Hopefully
I'll learn more by then or perhaps my head will explode. :-)

Good luck.

Michael





Nakashima <pnakashi at k12.hi.us>@videl.ics.hawaii.edu on 09/24/2003 09:35:04
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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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> http://www.luci.org/luci-discuss/200107/msg00026.html
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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

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