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\\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\ from Windows Explorer on the Win98 box shows the printer attached to the Mandrake box, and "PDF-generator", but not the FAT32 partition called Winshare. They appear in Network Neighborhood under a group named Mdkgroup, and the Mandrake box (Gateway) appears under that group. Neither of those showed up (even after several reboots) until I explicitly entered the IP address of the Mandrake box in Windows Explorer. Entering http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ from IE on the Win98 box gives me the default Apache screen on the Mandrake server. From the Mandrake box I can see and read the Win98 shared drives, but not the Win98 printer. I can successfully ping one box from the other.

After some initial struggles and a lot of help from users here, I got networking between MDK 9.1 and Win98 boxes working. I was able to use printers on each machine and access files on my Win98 box from Linux. Happiness reigned. Last week it just stopped working, mostly. I can still see and read the Win98 files, but can no longer use the printer on the Win98 box. From Win98, I can no longer see anything on my Mandrake box, not even the printer. In fact, Windows does not even recognize that there is another machine on the network. I have changed no settings on either box and have verified that they are as they were when things were working correctly. I can successfully ping each box from the other. A possibly related datum: I have a FAT32 partition called Winshare which I would imagine should have been visible from the Win98 box. I never could see it. Probably something configuration related. Can someone suggest what I should try in order to debug these issues?

Roland, thanks, that did the trick (though it took a couple of reboots on both machines for it to finally stick!). All shared network drives are now connected automatically at boot time. I never would have figured that out on my own.

OK, thanks. I'll assume it's just a USB device (there's a couple of Flash card readers that do not normally have a disk inserted). For the sake of completeness, here's my current fstab. Thanks to everyone for their assistance and comments. /dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 //neil/NEIL-CDROM /mnt/NEIL-CDROM smbfs user,username=% 0 0 //neil/NEIL-D /mnt/NEIL-D smbfs user,username=% 0 0 //neil/NEIL-E /mnt/NEIL-E smbfs user,username=% 0 0 //neil/NEIL-F /mnt/NEIL-F smbfs user,username=% 0 0 //neil/NEIL-H /mnt/NEIL-H smbfs user,username=% 0 0 //neil/NEIL-I /mnt/NEIL-I smbfs user,username=% 0 0 //neil/NEIL-J /mnt/NEIL-J smbfs user,username=% 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,ro 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hdb9 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0

Correct, from within Linux the Windows partition (which is on a separate physical drive on the same machine) is not accessible. It seems to be mounted, but shows as empty. It boots fine into Win2K, but I can't see any data on that drive when I boot into Mandrake.

I have MD 9.1 as a dual boot on a Win2K machine and I'm trying to clean up my config files. My windows stuff is on a separate, primary physical drive. Mandrake is on a secondary, slaved drive. Each time that I boot I get the following error: It doesn't tell me which partition failed. I'm guessing it's the NTFS partition that contains my Win2K C: drive, since I can't see anything on it, but how do I verify that it's that and not some other partition that it's complaining about? If it's the NTFS partition, what changes do I need to make so that it's readable? TIA.

Very newbie here so sorry if this question has an answer that is obvious to the whole world but me. I have MD9.1 loaded as a dual boot on a Win2K machine. I have a LAN connection to a Win98 PC. The MD install recognized the Win98 box (called "neil") and I can do a manual mount of each of its shared drives/directories and see their contents. I would have thought that those settings would be saved so that when I reboot the connection would be restored. What I am seeing instead is the following. The time between when the text "Bringing up interface eth0" appears on the screen and "succeeded" can be 60-70 seconds. What I am inferring from the logs is that somehow the automatic connection is not taking place -- maybe it's a password or case-sensitivity issue, but where do I look to find out what's being passed to machine "neil" during the boot sequence? Also, should I be concerned about the ifplugd timeout? Feb 29 22:27:15 localhost alsa: succeeded Feb 29 22:27:13 localhost ifplugd: Timeout reached, killing background process. Feb 29 22:27:13 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded . . Feb 29 22:27:18 localhost xfs: xfs startup succeeded Feb 29 22:27:20 localhost mount: SMB connection failed Feb 29 22:27:20 localhost mount: 1405: Connection to neil failed Feb 29 22:27:20 localhost mount: 1407: Connection to neil failed Feb 29 22:27:20 localhost mount: SMB connection failed Feb 29 22:27:20 localhost mount: 1408: Connection to neil failed Feb 29 22:27:20 localhost mount: SMB connection failed Feb 29 22:27:20 localhost mount: 1409: Connection to neil failed Feb 29 22:27:20 localhost mount: 1410: Connection to neil failed Feb 29 22:27:20 localhost mount: SMB connection failed Feb 29 22:27:20 localhost mount: SMB connection failed Feb 29 22:27:20 localhost mount: 1411: Connection to neil failed Feb 29 22:27:20 localhost mount: SMB connection failed Feb 29 22:27:20 localhost mount: 1412: Connection to neil failed Feb 29 22:27:20 localhost mount: SMB connection failed Feb 29 22:27:20 localhost netfs: Mounting SMB filesystems: failed Feb 29 22:27:20 localhost netfs: Mounting other filesystems: succeeded . . . Moved to networking by Ixthusdan