WM2003 connecting to SAMBA shares

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I'm trying to connect my 4150 to my linux server but the logins won't
authenticate. I've tried both Resco and PocketLAN.

Doing some Googling seems to indicate this is a known problem but I've
yet to find out if there's a solution.

Anyone?

Thanks

L3K

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David Hettel MS MVP - Mobile Devices wrote:
> I've got a h5555 that connects to SAMBA shares without problems. Are you
> running a firewall by any chance? And how are you addressing the shares as
> \\myserver\c or as http://192.168.1.1c ? If you install vxUtil on your
> 4150 can you ping the Samba server from the 4150 by name and by IP address?
>

Thanks for the advice - I'm already tooled up with Vx and other things.
There's no firewall between the PDA and Linux server and in all other
respects the network works fine - I'm even using PockeTTY to make ssh
connections to the Linux server.

I tried direct IP addressing for the sharees - no joy, but then I
deleted everything and tried again with \\caesar\docs and it worked!!
Mind you, my joy was short-lived because when I tried again later it
wouldn't authenticate again - I will resume my investigations later.

L3K

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Overallman wrote:
> Linker3000 wrote:
>
>> David Hettel MS MVP - Mobile Devices wrote:
>>
>>> I've got a h5555 that connects to SAMBA shares without problems. Are
>>> you running a firewall by any chance? And how are you addressing the
>>> shares as \\myserver\c or as http://192.168.1.1c ? If you install
>>> vxUtil on your 4150 can you ping the Samba server from the 4150 by
>>> name and by IP address?
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the advice - I'm already tooled up with Vx and other
>> things. There's no firewall between the PDA and Linux server and in
>> all other respects the network works fine - I'm even using PockeTTY to
>> make ssh connections to the Linux server.
>>
>> I tried direct IP addressing for the sharees - no joy, but then I
>> deleted everything and tried again with \\caesar\docs and it worked!!
>> Mind you, my joy was short-lived because when I tried again later it
>> wouldn't authenticate again - I will resume my investigations later.
>>
>> L3K
>
>
> Is the name of your server in the hosts table ?
> The name of your PDA doesn't contain any special characters (even _ is
> forbidden) ?

Server in hosts = yes

PDA = LK-PDA (my laptop is LK-MOBILE)

L3K