Mapping to CIFS share - do I need to do nbtstat -a always?

[shikarishambu]

I am trying to connect to an Alfresco 3.2 (running on Windows 2003 server) space from my Windows XP machine through a CIFS share.

It looks like I have to run

nbtstat - a <<ALFRESCO_SERVER_IP‍

every time I restart my machine to connect to the share. Is there a way to persist this information and not have to run the nbtstat -a every time I reboot?

I have tried

nbtstat -a ALFRESCO_SERVER_IP
net use X: \\SERVER_NAMEa\Alfresco\SPACE_NAME /user:<ALFRESCO_USER_NAME> /persistent:yes
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This keeps the mapped drive between reboots but I still have to run nbtstat -a for my client to "see" the Alfresco CIFS share.

TIA

[shikarishambu]

To avoid having to do this every time.

On Windows client trying to access an Alfresco CIFS share, do the following

1. Create lmhosts file in system32\drivers\etc with the following entries
   

<<ALFRESCO_IP_ADDRESS>> ALFRESCO_SRV_NAME
<<ALFRESCO_IP_ADDRESS>> ALFRESCO_SRV_NAMEa
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Note the 'a' at the end in the second line

2. Enable LMHOSTS lookup in Windows networking - Control Panel > Networking…

3. Run nbtstat -R. this should reload the netbios cache

4. Check the cache entries nbtstat -c . You should see the entries for the Alfresco server and Alfresco CIFS share.