This may sound kind of stupid but I found windows 2000 at least had to be
rebooted every time I made a change, but after working away at it all finally
started to come together.
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, you wrote:
MH > Russ & Rich,
MH >
MH > Thanks for your prompt reply. Smbd and nmbd are running, I use the
MH > /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart after I make changes to the smb.conf file. and
MH > yes I have added the users to the smbpasswd file, enabled
MH > PlainTextPassword on the windoze box. Like I said I can see the
MH > shares, (so I know smbd and nmbd are running) but cannot connect. I
MH > have been using samba for about a year and a half, I thought I ran into
MH > most of the problems one could face, NOT! I turned the log files up to "9",
MH > the only thing that looks out of the ordinary is this.
MH > *******************************************************
MH > [2000/02/13 10:52:21, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_data(474)
MH > read_socket_data: recv failure for 4. Error = Broken pipe
MH > [2000/02/13 10:52:40, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_data(474)
MH > read_socket_data: recv failure for 4. Error = Broken pipe
MH > [2000/02/13 10:54:40, 1] smbd/server.c:main(643)
MH > smbd version 2.0.6 started.
MH > Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998
MH > *******************************************************
MH > I'm not exactly sure what it is but it don't look good. That's why I believe
MH >
MH > thier may be a service that I need for samba that's not running .
MH > After not beeing able to connect I retrived my (previously working)
MH > smb.conf file from my ever prudent backup of /etc "before the upgrade to
MH > 7.0" that still doesn't work. Which again may point to something other
MH > than samba itself.
MH >
MH > Thanks again
MH >
MH > Mike
MH >
MH > Russ Johnson wrote:
MH >
MH > > Is smbd and nmbd running?
MH > >
MH > > Type 'ps ax | grep [sn]mbd'.
MH > >
MH > > If you don't get back either of them, try this:
MH > >
MH > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
MH > >
MH > > (smb might be 'samba')
MH > >
MH > > You should see smb and nmb start. Once they do, try connecting with the
MH > > Windows machine again.
MH > >
MH > > As long as that works, you'll need to set it up to start automatically. Do
MH > > this in Linuxconf.
MH > >
MH > > Russ
MH > >
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