lost network neighborhood on xp after connecting to samba on linux box

I've just installed samba on a linux (rh9) box on my lan and at the same time have lost the ability to browse my network neighborhood from my win xp home box.

When navigating on windows explorer to

networkneighborhood>entire network>microsoft windows network>networkneighborhood it fails to expand any further.

The msg says "the account is not authorized to log in from this station ". Also it misspells the workgroup, i.e. my workgroup name is Face2Interface which is spelled right on the first (top) appearance on explorer but when I drill down to the lower appearance it's spelled Face2interface, i.e. with a lower case 'i'.

Anybody have an idea what's going on? I can connect to my samba share with no such problem from a w98 box in my network, and my xp box seems to be connecting to all my network shares (samba and non-samba) fine too; it just looks like I've lost the ability to browse my network from the 'entire network' in explorer.

Marty

 

Marty - maybe.

Set up an account on the XP box with both a username and a non-blank password.

Under the Password Tab in Samba Swat add a new user (exact match including case) Then enter the user/password as again, an exact match. Then Enable User.

Log in to XP with the new account and see if it behaves. If it does, I'd suggest using the new account and simply moving the personal data from the old one as shown Here

 

Hey Newt,

Thanks for the tip. This whole thing acts pretty weird. At first I could connect from xp or 98 to rh linux with the problem described on xp explorer.

Then when I got a samba server running properly on the freebsd machine on my lan it fixed the issue of explorer not seeing the network layout on xp. Five machines on my lan btw -- xp home, 98, 95, fbsd 4.8, rh linux 9.

It gets worse. Now XP is grooving, seeing multiple shares on two unix boxes on my lan each running samba - and explorer works fine. However I've lost the ability to see shares on my 98/95 boxes.

Although the one share that I'd created first and could see on the 98 box is still ok. Betcha if I reboot that 98 box though I'll lose it, right?

Beats me.

 

Marty - sorry for the delay but had a busy weekend.

I've told you pretty much all of the little I think I know about Samba. You might do better on a Linux forum since they should have more folks who are used to working with it.

 

Hey Newt,

It gets even worse. I can connect to newer samba shares on my win98 box w/o a password but on my w95 box still can't connect. It's not troubling me, just curious.

A linux guy gave me a heads up on how to connect to windows from my unix boxes only I can't get working either.

This stuff is so much trouble to get going that it's going to be cool when I finally do. Meantime my primary goal of having my workstation share files from my two unix servers is working just fine so I'm happy.

Thanks for the followup, love that quote too.

Marty