On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 8:00 am, Pat Patterson wrote: > I have been setting up 9.2 and it has been going pretty well but I am > having a Samba problem. I can access the linux box from all of my other > machines a mix of w98, w2k, and a laptop with XP home. > > My problem is with accessing some of the other machines from linux. I have > lisa running. It will find all the machines. > pwpatter (itself) hp (laptop with xp) jp (w2k and my gateway) shop > (w99se/lm9.2). > > I can browse pwpatter,hp, and shop running lm9.2. > > jp and shop running w98 get a message unknown host > > from shop I can access jp with lisa. > > I have checked and rechecked passwords in linux and samba. I can ping by > name and number. I have logged in on both machines with the user and > password that works on hp. What am I missing??
In your samba config file /etc/samba/smb.conf find the setting wins server set it to yes and restart samba (service smb restart in a root terminal) derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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