On Wednesday 18 December 2002 05:56 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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
I have the drives set up as share level. I turned off all of the password stuff until I got the basics working. David
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