It cheerfully will connect to and browse my XP Home desktop's shares no probs, but refuses to have anything to do with the Samba share on the Fedora box (“\\Elmonstro is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The network path was not found”
.But when I access the Samba share from the desktop it pops up a password login to which I enter my details and get in, so I know it's working to some degree.
What may - or may not - be related is that on the desktop I no longer can reach the “Sharing” tab for folders. It's there for printers, but has disappeared from folders. The existing shares still work, but I can't switch them off.
I wonder if I fiddled with something on the desktop to get it working in the first place and just can't remember what it was...
Update - got the connection to Samba working. It seems that Samba pings a connecting machine and it wasn't getting a reply back from the Laptop. Connecting first from the Laptop to Linux via SSH first fixed that - though I don't really know why, nor whether its a permanent fix or just until the next reboot.
Update 2 Workaround: RMTSHARE is an NT command-line program that lets you set up shares.
my network died between my windows machines (xp pro) and i'm completely unable to get them to see each other.
at the same time, i can't get the mac to network with my main win machine either.
i feel your pain