Mapping a windows drive letter to my desktop linux box
 

Hi,

I always had a windows drive mapped to my desktop linux box – in this case to //jamd/jd.After I shifted my machine to new location it's not working. Here are some messages in my /var/log/samba.log file:



[2008/05/27 15:27:59, 1] libsmb/cliconnect.c:cli_connect(1312)

Error connecting to 192.168.0.4 (No route to host)

[2008/05/27 15:27:59, 0] auth/auth_server.c:server_cryptkey(83)

password server not available

[2008/05/27 15:27:59, 1] auth/auth_server.c:check_smbserver_security(252)

password server is not connected (cli not initilised)


Any idea how I repair this?

It looks like when you moved you where put on a different subnet or network. Try trouble shooting your network I guess? Could you post what "ifconfig -a" and "route" give you?

Also make sure you plugged your network cable in when you moved :)

When you say "Windows Drive"...

What exactly do you mean?

A removable drive that has windows data on it?
A hard-drive inside your workstation, that has windows installed on it?
A remote computer running Windows with a shared directory?


Your use of the samba error log suggests you know it to be a remote windows machine.

Can you ping the machine?
Can you post the output of:
Can you connect manually?
Can you mount it manually?
or:

Are you on a domain?
A great guide to troubleshooting samba: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba2/book/ch12.html