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Conecting ARCA OS 5.0 to Windows 10 in peer network - Success

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David Hart:
For years I have attempted to connect to Windows 7 and 10 using the SMB/CIFS client in eCS with no luck. COTS Linux based network drives have worked.

Each machine is in the same workgroup and I have a common host list on each machine and the alias' do resolve for all other computers I have on the network. 

When I tried this with Arca OS 5.0, it still did not connect which was disappointing, then I tried using the IP Address of the windows box and it worked.

I don't know why using the machine name works for other boxes except the Windows 10 one, the other names resolve just fine.  I thought I would share this since it works and it may not be a solution people think of when trying to connect.

Doug Bissett:
ArcaOS has just connected to my win 10 machines, since the beta where it got fixed. Some others have had strange problems.


--- Quote ---I don't know why using the machine name works for other boxes except the Windows 10 one, the other names resolve just fine.
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Try refreshing the LMHOSTS file. it may also help to put an entry into the HOSTS file, but that can be problematic if the address gets changed somehow.

Greggory Shaw:

--- Quote from: David Hart on June 10, 2017, 11:26:22 pm ---For years I have attempted to connect to Windows 7 and 10 using the SMB/CIFS client in eCS with no luck. COTS Linux based network drives have worked.

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For those that don't have Blue Lion yet, here's a guide for OS/2 and eCS users !

http://os2notes.duckdns.org/os2samba.html

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