[TCLUG] Smbmount and XP problems

Tue Apr 15 10:15:42 CDT 2003

It is in the network properties for the adapter (personal firewall)
under the advanced tab.  Right at the top it says "protect my computer
..." remove the check, it's on by default.

Rob Bentz
Networking Instructor
Dunwoody College of Technology

-----Original Message-----
From: gkrueger [mailto:gkrueger at cleosci.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 10:05 AM
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Smbmount and XP problems

This may have to do with the built-in firewall in XP.  There is a 
checkmark, on by default, you need to "uncheck" to make XP shares 
visible to other machines.  My recollection is that it is under the 
network properties, but I don't have XP in front of me at the moment so 
I can't look it up.

I've run into this on quite a number of ma;chines where XP can "see" 
them, but they cannot see XP shares.  The would cause smbmount to not be

able to mount the share properly.

Sorry for the lack of specifics; hopefully this points you in the right 
direction.

Garrett

Pastor Doug Coats wrote:

>Recently I needed to upgraded to XP from Win98 to run an XP native
phone
>system program.  Before that I had programmed our RH 7.1 Server to use
>smbmount to copy a backup of our file server to my machine at a set
time and
>then unmount when done. This worked great before I had to upgrade.
>
>If I share a directory in XP with simple sharing off so that I can set
the
>permissions so that only I have access to the backup Samba does not
seem to
>complete the mount correctly.  It locked up the entire file system and
would
>only show this smbmount as the only mounted partition but you could not
>write to it.
>  
>

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