Topic: I-bays appear to belong to Win2000 workstation

[k_graham]

The i-bays that should only appear on the SME server are also showing up on a windows 2000 workstation as if they exist there.

I have tried a different hub thinking it could be a hardware fault but the problem keeps happening. When it does I can no longer see the proper shares on that Windows 2000 computer.

This has also happened on a Fiery RIP which is running Windows NT.

Going to SME 5.5 has not helped.

If I turn the power off to the hub which is actually a 100 mb switch and then re-energize the proper shares usually appear for a few minutes, then the problem repeats itself again.

Any ideas?

Ken Graham

[darren]

are you sure they are not just links to the ibay on the sme server
Windows 2000 and xp have a "sort of like" Favorites thing in the network places so if you go to a internal or external site like an ibay or ftp it saves the link for you
now you can delete them from the network places but you are only deleting the link. as long as you are in the main directory of network places.
There is propbaly a way to turn this off but i don't know it off hand.

If you want to check this just right click one of these links and select properties it should show  //smeserver/ibay   or somthing similar

[k_graham]

> are you sure they are not just links to the ibay on the sme
> server

no - they were showing up as if they were actually a drive on a shared workstation. The annoying thing is the actual shares on the workstation/server were no longer visible.

I may have found a solution though and that is to give the shared workstation/server a fixed IP address. I haven't had the problem re-occur since I provided a fixed IP address.

A new problem created by providing a fixed IP address though was that Outlook Express quit recognizing the e-smith email server when configured with the word mail. I instead had to type in the ip address of the email server for Outlook Express to find it. 192.168.0.1 instead of mail.

Interestingly my ISP recently made us switch from using the word  mail,  to typing in the IP address of their email server. I think the DHCP portion of Linux may have difficulties with Windows 2000 professional so that the workaround is to type in the ip number.

I suspect this may speed up the network as well as lookups become instantaneous.

Ken Graham