On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 3:57 am, David Williams wrote: > On Saturday 14 December 2002 04:30 am, magnet wrote: > > On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 1:59 am, David Williams wrote: > > > OK, I give up. > > > I have a four computer network at home. I am running Linux on mine and > > > Win98 on the other three. I have been using Samba so I can copy files > > > and etc and to share a printer on my computer with the others. > > > > > > Everything has been working fine and now my computer and printer can't > > > be seen on the net. (I have very recently changed the monitor settings > > > from 800X600 to 1024X768 and got my background sound to work.) That is > > > the only thing that I have done. > > > > > > Under SWAT smb is running and nmb is not if I try to start nmb I get > > > the errors below logged to the log.nmbd file. > > > > > > I have no idea what is failing or how to fix it or where to look to > > > find out how to fix it. > > > David > > > > <snip> > > > > Hi David. > > Have a look at your linux settings using webmin first to see if > > drakconfig decided to switch your linux box's IP addy/change your LAN IP > > range. This will throw samba off a bit sometimes. [it did when I was > > installing the nvidia drivers]. > > Webmin makes a very good base setting 99% of the time. It also gives you > > the option to restart the samba server from within it's pages. > > Also worth looking at is your /etc/hosts file to see if you have added > > your windows boxs and their local.domain.names plus alias's. > > > > Let us know how you get on. > > > > regards > > magnet > > I got everything working with the biggest problem being shorewall. I have > it removed for the moment. I can read, write, and print files to my Linux > system from the Windows. However, I can only see the disk drives on the > windows system from the Linux system. I have the disks shared under > windows. I can not for the life of me find anything that would prevent me > from reading the shared files on Windows from the Linux PC. This usually > means that I have overlooked the obvious. Any help is greatly appreciated. > David
On the windows boxes, how are the share connections set? Mine are all set as share level, not password controlled. I don't know whether that would cause any problem. Anne
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