Kubuntu not reading files on one Windows machine?

[Derek Broughton]

Ian Whitfield wrote:

> I have 4 Windows machines and one Linux machine on a network. The Linux
> machine will read all the files/printers on 3 of the windows machines
> only! All files etc are shared. The Windows machines can all 'see' each
> other fine.
> 
> Any suggestion where I should look for the difference? All I can think
> of is that the 3 that I can read are running NOD 32 whereas the one I
> can't read is running Trend as Anti-Virus. Could this be the problem??

DHCP.  /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf should contain
 send host-name "<hostname>";

or may even have <hostname> replaced with your real host name.  

If you can do an "nslookup" for the linux host name from the windows boxes,
you have no problem, if you can't, I'd bet it's not sending its hostname to
the DHCP server, and if it isn't then netbios doesn't know its name,
either.
-- 
derek