Hi there. I just recently inherited a White MacBook (Since my bro got the 13" Macbook Pro) and I'm experiencing some issues with samba.
I didn't reinstall Leopard but I did create a new user and delete the old one.
Now, my home network consists of 2 Macbooks and a Windows PC. The network was working just fine until a few days ago. Now... I can access everywhere from the new Macbook pro, and everywhere from my PC. The problem is the White Macbook cannot connect to the PC. It appears in Finder, but I click on it and just says "Connection failed", if I try "connect as" I get that awful error saying the computer is either not operative or does not exist.
Now here's the weird thing, if I try to connect to smb://computeriphere instead of smb://computername here, it works fine.
I've tried rebooting a thousand times, changing the workgroup and pc's name, turning AFP on and off, turning SMB on an off, rebooting the mac another thousand times but it just doesn't work.
I tried a terminal command I found somewhere around to fix AFP, just in case it might work.
P.S. Recently my bro set up a bootcamp in his new mac for running XP and I get the same exact error when trying to access that from my macbook.
EDIT: I just now tried smb://computername.local and it worked too... I'd settle for this if only it wasn't for the fact that I can still see a nonfunctioning computer under "Shared" in finder.
I didn't reinstall Leopard but I did create a new user and delete the old one.
Now, my home network consists of 2 Macbooks and a Windows PC. The network was working just fine until a few days ago. Now... I can access everywhere from the new Macbook pro, and everywhere from my PC. The problem is the White Macbook cannot connect to the PC. It appears in Finder, but I click on it and just says "Connection failed", if I try "connect as" I get that awful error saying the computer is either not operative or does not exist.
Now here's the weird thing, if I try to connect to smb://computeriphere instead of smb://computername here, it works fine.
I've tried rebooting a thousand times, changing the workgroup and pc's name, turning AFP on and off, turning SMB on an off, rebooting the mac another thousand times but it just doesn't work.
I tried a terminal command I found somewhere around to fix AFP, just in case it might work.
P.S. Recently my bro set up a bootcamp in his new mac for running XP and I get the same exact error when trying to access that from my macbook.
EDIT: I just now tried smb://computername.local and it worked too... I'd settle for this if only it wasn't for the fact that I can still see a nonfunctioning computer under "Shared" in finder.