turn up debugging in samba and include it in your post it makes it VERY
difficult to debug with just "it wont work" in the email.

nate

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Brian J. Stults wrote:

bs7452 >My university just switched from Novell servers to NT.  There are two
bs7452 >servers containing discs to which I have access.  One of them gave me no
bs7452 >trouble at all.  I used this command to mount the shared drive:
bs7452 >
bs7452 >smbmount //server1/shared /mountpoint.  
bs7452 >
bs7452 >However, I could not get the drive on the other server mounted.  My
bs7452 >username and password are identical for both, and I can mount both
bs7452 >easily from Windows98.  The sysadmin knows nothing of linux, but did
bs7452 >suggest one possible difference between the two servers that might be
bs7452 >causing the problem.  He said the first server, which I don't have
bs7452 >trouble with, is a "domain hosted" server, or something like that. 
bs7452 >While the one that I am having trouble with is a "stand alone" server,
bs7452 >or something like that.  Sorry, but I know absolutely nothing about
bs7452 >Windows NT.  He also suggested that I explicitly pass my username and
bs7452 >that I use GROUPNAME/USERNAME as my username rather then simply
bs7452 >USERNAME.  That didn't work, but I thought it might give you a better
bs7452 >idea of what he thinks the problem is.
bs7452 >
bs7452 >Any ideas?  Thanks.
bs7452 >-- 
bs7452 >
bs7452 >Brian J. Stults
bs7452 >Doctoral Candidate
bs7452 >Department of Sociology
bs7452 >University at Albany - SUNY
bs7452 >Phone: (518) 442-4652  Fax: (518) 442-4936
bs7452 >Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
bs7452 >
bs7452 >
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