Can't Get Connection To Corporate Network

[maikoherajin]

Hello, I was wondering if someone could help me out with a problem I'm having.

As nearly as I can tell, I have everything set up correctly for the networking portion of Kubuntu, but I can not connect to the corporate "workgroup" we have here at work. When I open the smb:/ address in konqueror, I see two networks, "Workgroup", which I assume is just a few people that have their network setup wrong, and "Acct04", the name of the domain I'm on.

Clicking on Workgroup gives me a list of the computers in the work group, and I can subsequently click on them to get a list of shares, as you would expect. However, clicking on Acct04 gives me the error "Could not connect to host for smb://acct04/". I have tried fiddling with the /etc/samba.smb.conf file, but I'm relatively new to Samba, and am not even sure if the settings in there influence the client portion of it.

The relevent (I think) sections of the config file are:
workgroup=acct04
encrypt passwords = yes
domain master = no
ldap ssl = No
server signing = Auto
Security = ads
realm = ACCT04.US.MYDOMAIN.COM

MYDOMAIN is of course, replaced by my actual corporate domain name. If it will help, I can post the entire config file.

One point of note is that I did manage to get the list of computers on that workgroup once, but I have no idea why it worked, and as soon as I rebooted, it ceased working again. If anyone has anything to point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. Thank you very much!

[penguin.ch]

Re: Can't Get Connection To Corporate Network

Hello, I was wondering if someone could help me out with a problem I'm having.

Check the IP subnet as well as broadcast addresses of the machines involved ... my guess: they do not equal each other.

[maikoherajin]

Re: Can't Get Connection To Corporate Network

Check the IP subnet as well as broadcast addresses of the machines involved ... my guess: they do not equal each other.

As near as I can tell, the linux computer and the other computer I'm testing are. I'm not sure how to check the broadcast address on Windows but they are definatly on the same subnet, and are in fact only a few IPs apart.

More interesting is that I am now starting to get a more reliable ability to at least *list* the computers on the workgroup, but it still randomly won't let me see them. Also, while Windows lists 277 computers on the workgroup, konqueror only sees about 58, and that number varies up and down as I refresh the list. Clicking on any of the computers I CAN see works fine, and if I type in the name of a computer I CAN'T see manually, it also seems to work. (the test computer is one of these) This is encouraging, but still not really reliable, and confusing.

The list of computers is retrieved from the domain controller, is that correct? If so, could it be an issue where for some reason the domain controller doesn't want to talk to my linux box sometimes?