[KLUG Members] Samba client vs. WinXPee

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>everything else on this network works just fine, just the fileserver 
>connectivity issues.

Right, and things like HTTP, IMAP, SMTP, don't depend upon the NetBIOS name
space (WINS).  File sharing and domain authentication do, hence that is a good
place to look.  And it is really wasy to screw up.

>From what I've gathered, it looks to be something 
>with taking a long time to verify against the domain controller. But 
>the thing I don't get is even if that's the case, Samba on *nix is 
>instantaneously connected. the way I connect on XPee is using the run 
>dialog box: '\\comet(the file server)\username$" I have tried the 

Right,  Samba (by default) and Win32sinceNT4 (by default) do not use name
resolution methods in the same order. Having Samba find a box instantly while NT
takes forever, or vice versa, is hardly an unheard of occurance.

>"netuse" command, and it plain didn't work from XPee (but that machine 

Have you tried to resolve the file servers name using nbtstat on the XP client?
 What NetBIOS tags are there for the servers name?

Try something like 
C:\>nbtstat -n

Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.1.189] Scope Id: []

                NetBIOS Local Name Table

       Name               Type         Status
    ---------------------------------------------
    PC01918        <00>  UNIQUE      Registered
    BACKBONE       <00>  GROUP       Registered
    PC01918        <20>  UNIQUE      Registered
    PC01918        <03>  UNIQUE      Registered
    BACKBONE       <1E>  GROUP       Registered
    ADAM           <03>  UNIQUE      Registered

C:\>nbtstat -a barbel  {Where barbel is the file server / dc}

Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.1.189] Scope Id: []

           NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table

       Name               Type         Status
    ---------------------------------------------
    BARBEL         <00>  UNIQUE      Registered
    BARBEL         <03>  UNIQUE      Registered
    BARBEL         <20>  UNIQUE      Registered
    ..__MSBROWSE__.<01>  GROUP       Registered
    BACKBONE       <00>  GROUP       Registered
    BACKBONE       <1B>  UNIQUE      Registered
    BACKBONE       <1C>  GROUP       Registered
    BACKBONE       <1E>  GROUP       Registered
    LITTLEBOY      <00>  UNIQUE      Registered
    LITTLEBOY      <03>  UNIQUE      Registered
    LITTLEBOY      <20>  UNIQUE      Registered

    MAC Address = 00-00-00-00-00-00