I have a WinXP Pro system networked to a Linux SUSE 9 with Samba. I have successfully connected the XP system to Samba with file and printer mappings for about the past year. After a few days, software I use to backup the XP system (in the background at 3:00 AM) to the Linux server will begin reporting that the drive is inaccessible. I can see the drive with Explorer and even browse the drive directories and folders. After doing this, the drive is accessible to the backup task. It will be OK for a few days before once again becoming inaccessible. I have tried to schedule a simple DOS BAT to list a directory on the drive prior to the backup task starting thinking I could reestablish the connection but this DOS task also fails with a like error. Any suggestions on what to look for in my Samba configuration or in Windows to keep this from happening?

Thanks!

What dose the /var/logs say?

Found in: file:/var/log/samba/log.nmbd
[2005/07/26 03:02:16, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name_response(112)
query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet 192.168.1.4 for name NAGYFAMILY<1d>.
This response was from IP 192.168.1.101, reporting an IP address of 192.168.1.101.

I found messages in other logs that referenced printing issues and have not included them.

Thanks!

BTW, the address reported in the message ending in .101 is the XP machine and address ending in .4 is the server.

This is a NMB clash. Name the XP box something like myxpbox2 reboot and rejoin the domain.

I love log files!

Thanks! I've changed the name of the XP machine and we'll see in a week if this has improved the situation!

In the week since I made the change to the computer name, the share has remained available and there have been no failures during the nightly backup. Thanks for interpreting the message and providing a fix.