[NTLUG:Discuss] Samba and XP

[Tom Woody]

Not sure if you have been asked this or not....what version of Samba?  Samba didn't support XP until 2.1 or 2.2.  I use Samba 2.2 and can map drives from XP to my Linux box, and vice versa with not a bit of problem.

Woody

On 26 Feb 2002 15:49:11 -0600
Patrick Parks <patrick at patrickparks.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 10:13, Bob Byron wrote:
> > > From: "Bug Hunter" <bughuntr at one.ctelcom.net>
> > >  If you are using the XP "Home" version, it lacks the ability to mount
> 
> This is XP Professional. I do no have this on my machine by choice, I am
> so tired of playing with Windows, if it were my choice, it would be
> Linux only! :)
> 
> I get this when I run the command:
> 
> [pparks at Vaio pparks]$ smbclient -L 192.168.0.1 -U pparks -W MSHome
> added interface ip=192.168.0.5 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> session request to 192.168.0.1 failed (Called name not present)
> session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
> Password:
> Domain=[MSHOME] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
> 
>         Sharename      Type      Comment
>         ---------      ----      -------
>         IPC$           IPC       Remote IPC
>         SharedDocs     Disk
>         print$         Disk      Printer Drivers
>         Backup         Disk
>         My Pictures    Disk
>         ADMIN$         Disk      Remote Admin
>         C$             Disk      Default share
>         Printer        Printer   Canon Bubble-Jet BJC-3000
> 
>         Server               Comment
>         ---------            -------
> 
>         Workgroup            Master
>         ---------            -------
> 
> So it appears that I am able to see the shares, but can not mount them.
> This has to be an XP problem, cause when I was running ME I was able to
> mount the Windows share with no problem. Or it could very well be a user
> (me) error :)
> 
> Patrick Parks
> 
>