[geeks] Windows 7 File & Printer Sharing Nightmare

[Michael Parson]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Mark Benson wrote:
> On 07/01/2015 15:11, Nick B wrote:
>> I'm going to guess winbind, but I tend to blame winbind when normal
>> diags fail me on windows.
>> Nick
>
> It certainly sounds like that might be it, nothing that references
> the Windows share name works, file sharing, printing, browsing
> share names... It has that air of being something like a nameserver
> failure. The only thing that is not consistent with that is one
> serving PC asks some workstations for a user/password when you try to
> connect from some PCs, like it's forgotten I turned the option off.
>
> I am stuck for solutions, though. Rebooting either or both PCs
> sometimes works, but sometimes it doesn't. I also don't turn the
> office PCs on in the morning so I don't know what order they are being
> booted up in and if that effects it.

Sounds like the browse master gets confused.  SMB host resolution has
little to do with DNS, you have to deal with this nonsense.

> Any clever ideas?

This might help:

http://scottiestech.info/2009/02/14/how-to-determine-the-master-browser-in-a-windows-workgroup/

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Michael Parson
Austin, TX
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