SAMBA again

[Aaron Grewell]

> I may have missed this on in that jungle called 'the docs', but I see in
> the samba logs that SAMBA is broadcasting its existence to the net using
> its netbios name (sto-opq-src), but XP  users need to use the FQD
> (sto-opq-src.scc.se). Just using the netbios name does not work for
> them. Sooo, should I be using the FQD as the netbios name? I would not
> think so, but I have given up on relying on logic in this particular
> area.
> 
> I have stepped back to user level security until (if...) ads security is
> ever sorted out. That is a different set of problems, but at least they
> can access something.
> 

OK, that sounds more like a name resolution problem.  On the XP clients,
make sure that they're set to auto-append the appropriate domain suffix
or they won't figure it out for themselves.  scc.se should be in the
list of domain suffixes and the auto-append checkbox needs to be on
(they call it something different, but I'm not remembering at the
moment).  If you need netbios resolution to work they have to be on the
same subnet or WINS needs to be working, but I'd try the DNS suffix bit
first since netbios is evil.