Re: Difficulty accessing Windows partitions
Does smb:/ work?.
It's quite strange. If smbtree shows the names of your machines, it means that samba knows them.
Seens like samba is trying to resolve the names using something that timeouts (bet: dns) instead of using nmbd (the windows name system for workgroups).
Here is a bad solution that will probably work:
- Add the names and ips of each machine to the /etc/hosts files.
It will work, but force you to using static address
A better solution could be to install the samba package. It will let you share linux folders and also install a nmbd server. I hope that having a nmbd server will resolve the issue.
Javier.
Does smb:/ work?.
It's quite strange. If smbtree shows the names of your machines, it means that samba knows them.
Seens like samba is trying to resolve the names using something that timeouts (bet: dns) instead of using nmbd (the windows name system for workgroups).
Here is a bad solution that will probably work:
- Add the names and ips of each machine to the /etc/hosts files.
It will work, but force you to using static address
A better solution could be to install the samba package. It will let you share linux folders and also install a nmbd server. I hope that having a nmbd server will resolve the issue.
Javier.
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