samba - Dec 2003 - Mapping Problem

All,

	The Windows 2000 client is on my side of the firewall (the error message is:
"remote computer is not available"), the Windows XP client is on the
other side of the firewall, (the error message is: "The specified network
name is no longer available").  I am able to ping both the IP address and
server name of the CIFS/Samba server.  I cannot perform the mapping, via Map
Drive, then I connect as different user name and I enter a user id that I setup
with smbpasswd (testcifs).  Then I receive both these messages, I have searched
message lists and the web for documentation on these errors, and I am unable to
find anything that works.  I seen a document that said if you could ping, then
the next thing was to setup lmhosts on the client, which I did, that still does
not work, so there may be some configuration problem of some sort.

I appreciate your help very much.

-Dan

COUNTERMAN, DANIEL (CONTRACTOR) wrote:
> All,
> 
> 	The Windows 2000 client is on my side of the firewall (the error message
is: "remote computer is not available"), the Windows XP client is on
the other side of the firewall, (the error message is: "The specified
network name is no longer available").  I am able to ping both the IP
address and server name of the CIFS/Samba server.  I cannot perform the mapping,
via Map Drive, then I connect as different user name and I enter a user id that
I setup with smbpasswd (testcifs).  Then I receive both these messages, I have
searched message lists and the web for documentation on these errors, and I am
unable to find anything that works.  I seen a document that said if you could
ping, then the next thing was to setup lmhosts on the client, which I did, that
still does not work, so there may be some configuration problem of some sort.
> 
> I appreciate your help very much.
Are the 2 boxes on different IP subnets? If so, they won't be able to
broadcast to find a
box with a certain NETBIOS name. You'll need to set 'wins support =
yes' in your smb.conf
and point both boxes at the IP of the Samba server for the WINS resolution.

-- 
Andrew Gaffney