[Sussex] SAMBA server / Win2k client

[Mark Harrison]

Tony,

It turned out to be an authentication issue. Sorted on IRC last night.

Thanks,

Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Austin" <tony at gigaday.com>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] SAMBA server / Win2k client


>
> > OK, I've now got the "big spare disk" in the new Debian box, and am
trying
> > to set it up as a server.
> >
> > I have Samba installed, and it's running, to the extent that the debian
> > box
> > appears in windows network browsing.
> >
> > However, when I try to connect to it, I get the error "the semaphore
> > period
> > timed out". This is with a Windows 2000 client.
>
> groups.google.com comes up with this
>
>
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=the+semaphore+period%0D%0Athe+semaphore+period+timed+out&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search
>
> several of which mention DHCP, maybe it's not a Samba error
>
> what does the event log have to say about it?
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > M.
> >
> >
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> Regards.
>
> Tony Austin
> Gigaday Computing Limited
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