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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