windblows can't mount smb share

Gregory Nowak greg at romualt.dhs.org
Sun May 19 14:03:02 EDT 2002


The share name is "storage". The user I'm logging in as used to work just fine for more then a year now, until recently. I'll try the rest, and let you know off list if I have any other questions. Thanks.
Greg


On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 04:10:59PM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> What is the share name? Windows does not like long
> share names or sharenames with strange characters in them.
> Also insure your guest account is valid and if not using
> the guest account that the user account has a password set
> with smbpasswd.
> Send your smbd process 2 sigUSR1 signals, watch your log.smb
> file and attach to the share. When done, send 2 sigUSR2 signals.
> sigUSR1 increases debug level, USR2 decreases it. The logs are your friend.
> Email me the relevant log lines if they make no sense to you to me off list.
> 
> Regards, Kerry.
> On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:48:08PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've got another samba problem seemingly for no reason (since I didn't make any samba changes), and I just don't see what's going on. I'm hoping someone can help.
> > 
> > I see my gnu/linux box in network neighborhood. I hit enter on that, and see my public share like I'm supposed to. When I hit enter on it, windblows pops up a dialogue with an ok button which says \\machine\share "is not accessible. The share name was not found. Be sure you typed it correctly." 
> > I should mention that my other GNU/Linux boxes mount the share of course without a complaint. Can someone please shed some light on this windblows strangeness? Thanks.
> > Greg
> > 
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