I found the problem. Culpa mea, naturally.
After setting up a DNS server on the Linux box, I had also revised the
resolve order in Samba to put lmhosts first, and then I created a lmhosts
file in /etc/samba. The problem was that I'd inadvertently swapped the IPs
of two machines in the lmhosts f
I found the problem. Culpa mea, naturally.
After setting up a DNS server on the Linux box, I had also revised the
resolve order in Samba to put lmhosts first, and then I created a lmhosts
file in /etc/samba. The problem was that I'd inadvertently swapped the IPs
of two machines in the lmhosts f
I did it, I broke the cardinal rule "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", and
I made a configuration change to Samba.
It was in the area of preferred master/local master/domain master, and I
did it as a recommended change while setting up DNS.
Now, when I try to map Win98 shares on my RH7.2 Linbo