samba - Feb 2000 - Samba, Error 53

I have installed samba 2.03 onto Solaris 2.6. The PC network is very basic with
a couple of NT 4 and Win 98 machines.

All the machines can see the UNIX server through network neighbourhood and the
net view command, but only the NT machines can connect to it. When I use the net
view or net use command on 98 nodes I get the following error:

Error 53: The computer name specified in the network path cannot be
located. Make sure you are specifying the computer name correctly, or try
again later when the remote computer is available.

I can ping and telnet from 98 to Unix and vice-versa. 

I have tried many different options. This is driving me up the wall !!!!!!!!!!!!

Any pointers or help would be very gratefully received.



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>I have installed samba 2.03 onto Solaris 2.6. The PC network is very
>basic with a couple of NT 4 and Win 98 machines.
>
>All the machines can see the UNIX server through network neighbourhood
>and the net view command, but only the NT machines can connect to it.
>When I use the net view or net use command on 98 nodes I get the
>following error:
>
>Error 53: The computer name specified in the network path cannot be
>located. Make sure you are specifying the computer name correctly, or
>try
>again later when the remote computer is available.
>
>I can ping and telnet from 98 to Unix and vice-versa.=20
>
>I have tried many different options. This is driving me up the wall
>!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Any pointers or help would be very gratefully received.

One suggestion would be to try something like :

net use n: \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\ShareName

(useing your Solaris ip address instead of its NETBIOS name.)

This has worked for me when I was having a WINS problem, 
(especially when the client and server are on different ip subnets.)


Daniel Lewis
Caelus Inc,
Spokane WA.