Long Time Samba No Work-Need Expert Help On Samba/Networking

[NoOp]

On 07/20/2007 09:43 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Hi All, I have a 2 computer LAN using a 2Wire 1701HG Gateway/DSL
> Modem with one WinXP machine connecting to gateway via Linksys
> WMP54Gv4 wlan adapter and the other Ubuntu machine connected directly
> via 3Com 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 34) NIC. The system works
> near perfectly as individual machines but don't talk to each other.
> Although, I did the actual setups on the two machines, I had hand
> holding help from a Debian friend and a WXP friend. My suspicions are
> that the network or Samba is not set up properly. I've spent many
> hours over weeks googling, reading finds and manuals, trying
> solutions that may have made matters worse and have got to the point
> that don't know what to do/try next.  Haven't specified any Domain
> Name for the system and believe that's unnecessary.  Using DHCP but
> my IPs never change.  Haven't attempted to reinstall the wlan card or
> network as not confident in my abilit y to do so.  All the above FYI.
> My symptoms are:
> 
> Can't map network drives on WinXP. I click on "map network drives"
> and enter on the popup:
> 

I suggest two things:

1. Start over using the instructions here:
   http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty [Samba section]
    http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#Samba_Server

2. Address any further replies to ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
In your msgs to Karl you are sending directly to Karl and cc'ing the
list. When you do this others cannot reply as your email is set to reply
only to your address directly:
Message-ID: <429874.7216.qm at web82809.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Cc: User Mail List-Ubuntu <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au>
Swap the above & CC Karl if you want, but reply to
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com.

Try the instructions in #1 above & if that doesn't work then please post
back (ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com :-).