You may have gotten a pop up on Windows that says your network resource is no longer available after a password change or password expired notice and while using Network Neighborhood. During troubleshooting you find that others can access share, the server is pingable but you can not access any share on system and it feels like XP thinks the server is not there.

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Samba and Winbind Fix for Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory Services

Having issues with file sharing when inside a Windows 2008 R2 Domain? Are you getting these errors in you logs?
rpc_client/cli_pipe.c:rpc_api_pipe(790)
rpc_api_pipe: Remote machine 0.0.0.0 pipe \NETLOGON fnum 0x8007 returned critical error. Error was NT_STATUS_PIPE_DISCONNECTED
A little searching online shows a lot of people with this or related problems, It looks like there’s a bug in the samba package that prevents Continue reading

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