From: Jeff Shultz 

Adam Flinton wrote:

> Jeff Shultz wrote:
>
>>
>> Same thing - "Master cannot be found. No Network path, blah
blah blah"
>>
>> I'm thinking it has something to do with encrypted passwords, since I
>> think that requirement is the only big difference between Win98SE and
>> Win2k.
>>
>
>
> Humm.. No problems here whatsoever. None even when I downed the old NT4
> PDC.
>
Figured it out... stupid that it took me this long.

NFS didn't work either... practically identical error as Samba/NetBIOS. So
I tried to figure what the two might have in common.

DNS.

So I tried to ping "master' from "bride" (no, the machine
names do not reflect my marital relationship)... no dice. Hmmmm.

Checked DNS, master.shultzinfosystems was in there as an alias for
mail.shultzinfosystems.com (this may be part of the screwup, the machine is
named master, but mail is the name that got the IP in dns).

So I added 192.168.255.4 master.shultzinfosystems.com to my hosts file on
the Win2k box and all the networking stuff suddenly worked.

Sheesh. I knew that Win2k didn't like Linux BIND - unless it's the _only_
name server available to the Win2k box, the Win2k box will happily skip it
and go to the secondary name server (which runs on Solaris 9) - but I
didn't think the hate was this strong. I should note that Win98SE didn't
care and accepted that alias quite nicely.

Happily, after figuring all that out the Windows SFU mount command worked
quite nicely to stick my \Share partition up at z:.

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Jeff Shultz

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