Thanks bcastner. I was able to resolve this problem by looking at the switch instead of the XP machines for the problem. By Enabling the PORT FAST option on the Cisco Switch, it reconnects the drives right away without fail.
PORT FAST immediately brings a port from the blocking state into the...
I am net admin of approximately 50 Workstation environment using dos, win9x, win2kpro, and winxp pro as workstations. The servers we are using are redhat 9.0 (smb interface)and netware 3.12. We have a Cicso 2900 switch, Dell PowerConnect 3024 switch, linksys 10/100 hub and 3 dlink 10 hubs.
My...
Can you use the net use command from a dos prompt to map it to a drive letter? Example net use g: \\my_pcname\test
You will either be prompted for a username and password or you will get "The command completed successfully"
At this point you can change to the g drive and see all...
If you use SWAT, after you add the user, you then have to enable the user. Using:
smbpasswd -a username
will add the user and enable them in one command.
You may need to add the machine to the passwd and smbpasswd files this is done by the following:
adduser -g machines -d /dev/null/ -s /bin/fasle -n machine_name$
smbpasswd -a -m machine_name$
Replace machine_name$ with the full machine name (all lower case). You must also have the group...
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