I hate computers

[eub]

I've been mucking around for hours tonight trying to get Windows file sharing to work between the three computers here, and all I've managed to do is break it worse. (The one thing that used to work was that the winxp machine could see the win95 machine (not vice versa), but now nobody can see anybody.) Grr.
What distressing is I have no idea even what to try from this point, besides setting the workgroup name back and seeing if that returns it to the old broken state.

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[cellio]

It took us a lot of fussing and at least one visit from a clueful friend to get our network more-or-less happy. And every time we add a machine we go through chaos again. And we're not even trying to make all machines see each other; currently Dani's and my desktops see Hub but not each other, and the new Linux box (dunno if it has a name yet) is still incommunicado.

Every time we have to fuss with this stuff, we bumble around for a while until we find something that works (and that we can't recreate the path to), and then we leave it alone for as long as possible. I think networks are a dark art or something, at least when they involve Windows.

[eub.livejournal.com]

What distresses me about my interactions with Windows is that I don't know how to get diagnostics on how SMB or whatever damnable protocol we're dealing with here is failing. "net use /verbose" would be nice. Someone said he ended up diagnosing these problems by putting a Linux box on the network and telling smbclient to give him the scoop.