Samba in Windows XP Error

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Wed Jun 4 22:28:39 UTC 2008


At 12:14 AM 6/4/2008, Ruel Luchavez wrote:
>Hi ALL
>
>I have installed the samba package 3.0.28 in my freebsd 7.0, the
>installation all goes well my problem only is when i add the
>samba in an existing workgroup i can access it in my windows xp client
>however if it has its own workgroup i always have this
>error in windows xp pro "The network path was not found".. what would i
>miss??
>
>Freebsd Rocks.....

Ruel,

Your note doesn't say how you have windows configured?  Active 
Directory?  Domain Controller?  Or?

Do you have samba as a slave to the window's controller?  Usually I have 
found this method works best.  Windows user's accounts are created 
automatically that way on the samba box.

         -Derek

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