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Re: Upgrade from Slink



On Mon, 15 May 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote:

> On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 13:28, Matthew Thompson wrote:
> > I run a server at mattyt.net (wu-ftp, apache, sendmail, samba, netatalk)
> > and recently ugraded from 2.1 to 2.2.  I do not run any XFree on it,
> > console only.  I don't even have a monitor or keyboard hooked up, just ssh
> > access.  The name of the server on the LAN is doma.
> > 
> > The upgrade, using dselect, proceeded without issue.  I had to restart
> > some services, but everything works fine except for one thing:  my Win98
> > box, named igra on the LAN (just gotta play Descent 3 :) no longer will
> > connect to doma via Samba.  doma shows up in the Network Neighborhood, and
> > I am able to connect to doma every other way (I am sending this email via
> > an ssh session).  However, when I click on the doma icon, I can hear
> > doma's hard drive crunch for a second, then I get the error "\\Doma is
> > not accessible.  This device does not exist on the network."  I have
> > restarted samba and restarted my Win98 box a couple of times each, to no
> > avail.  A copy of my smb.conf file is here:
> 
> Dunno about Win98, but in Win95 sometimes it's necessary to have the
> samba machine in the C:\WINDOWS\HOSTS file.
> 
> $ cat /win95/windows/hosts
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> abc.def.37.37   quanyin
> abc.def.37.100  dataserver

Well, it seemed that I shouldn't have to do that since it worked before
and I upgraded the Debian server, not the Win box, but I put a hosts file
in c:\windows to no avail.  Win98 still says the device doesn't exist on
the network. 

Matthew Thompson       http://mattyt.net
mattyt@oz.net          http://www.oz.net/~mattyt
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