Date   : Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:48:44 +0000
From   : julian_stenning@... (Julian Stenning)
Subject: Master Ethernet Upgrade

 

Are you supplying the domain name on the mount command? As it's a domain
I suspect you'll need to supply <username>@... or <netbios_domain_name>\<username>,
along with the password, of course.

Julian.
 
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:51:56 +0100
> From: robert@...
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Master Ethernet Upgrade
> 
> On 23/10/2009, chris whytehead <christopher.whytehead@...> wrote:
> >
> > Having finally fitted the Master Ethernet Upgrade to a Master, and got it
> > working, I have some problems.
> 
> I've yet to get my hands on one of these myself, but since nobody else
> has replied,I can give a few generic pointers .. ...:
> 
> >
> > I can *ping sarah.chriswhy.local , if I try *ping sarah I get "Host not
> > known".
> 
> Is there a equivalent to the 'hosts' file, or a searchdomain field?
> Somewhere to set "chriswhy.local" as the default domain name?
> Alternatively, can you set the local dns server to assume such on
> single name requests? It seems as if it's not finding a dns request
> without the domain name as well.
> 
> 
> >
> > If I try to mount sarah's Public directory using *mount, I get:
> >
> > 1. *mount \\sarah\public user pword gives "Host not known"
> > 2. *mount \\sarah.chriswhy\public user pword gives "Host not known"
> 
> these will be the same reason as the ping doesn't work.
> 
> > 2. *mount \\sarah.chriswhy.local\public user pword gives "Bad name"
> 
> Are there any spaces in the username or password? These always cause
> problems.. can you use the same user/pass from another machine on
> thenetwork?
> 
> 
> Rob
> 
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