Problem connecting to samba share

Interesting problem. I have an application that writes
to a file located on a samba share. The application
accesses the file
directly "\\shareddrive\sharename\file". Somtimes it
works and sometimes it doesn't.

It always works if I browse to the shared location via
Network Neighborhood. However, if I haven't browsed to
the the location first the application will lock up the
Win98 workstation when it tries to write to the file.
After that I have to reboot.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

I haven't worked with SMB outside of a domain environment, but I think you
might have some sort of WINS issue at work.

As a lark, try editing the LMHOSTS file on your win98 box, forcing the
assignment of the IP address of the unix box to the netbios name
(servername) you've assigned to the smb share. THis might work better for
you, but isn't a long term solution to the problem.

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> Interesting problem. I have an application that writes
> to a file located on a samba share. The application
> accesses the file
> directly "\\shareddrive\sharename\file". Somtimes it
> works and sometimes it doesn't.
>
> It always works if I browse to the shared location via
> Network Neighborhood. However, if I haven't browsed to
> the the location first the application will lock up the
> Win98 workstation when it tries to write to the file.
> After that I have to reboot.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.