> Mike Abney wrote:
>
> As someone who went through this just last night (thanks Axalon!) I
> think I can help. There are three steps from where I think you are to
> you having a (more or less) working system:
>
> 1. If you edit the smb.conf directly, you will see several "master"
> settings.
> You probably don't want Linux to be the Master unless you
> *really* know
> what you're doing. (Regardless of the warm and fuzzy feeling it
> might give
> you.)
> 2. Also in smb.conf you need to find the "remote announce" property
> and add
> the subnets you want to see your box. (Typically, this will be
> your IP
> address and then change the last number to 255 -- that's a
> *really*
> gross oversimplification, but it should get you up and running.)
> 3. So long as the HOSTNAME and DOMAIN in netconf seem to be correct
> you can
> probably get rid of the DNS server from hosts and just put it's
> IP in
> resolv.conf where it goes (DHCPcd should do this for you
> automatically).
>
> That should get you up and running. Creating accounts and stuff is
> another matter. *I'm* still working on that. ;-)
>
> ~Mike
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sean Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 9:43 AM
> > To: Newbie List for Mandrake
> > Subject: [newbie] NMB Problem anew...
> >
> >
> > Ok. Since I last posted this problem I have found that I can
> > correct the
> > NMB [FAILS] at boot up time by changing the Hostname in netconf to
> > localhost.localdomain and adding the dns server name and IP address
> to
> > the hosts and lmhosts files. I can talk to the network this way, but
> I
> > can not see my computer on the network when I use someone
> > elses NT box.
> > If I change the hostname to the correct name for my computer
> > in netconf,
> > then NMB fails again and I can not talk to the network
> > properly and can
> > still not see my computer on the network. I do not have a static IP
>
> > address for my computer and use DHCP to connect to the DNS server. I
>
> > wish to keep using DHCP, because I would prefer to not tie up
> > another of
> > the company's IP addresses. Does anyone have any idea why SAMBA has
>
> > such problems with DHCP?
> >
> > Thanx,
> > SA
> >
Dhcp already puts the nameserver IP in resolv.conf . If I take my
computer name out of the hosts or lmhosts file, NMB [FAILS] at boot up.
I added the subnet to the "remote announce" , but I still can't see my
computer on someone else's NT box. In case I didn't mention this before,
My computer is one of two linux boxes on an NT network here at work.
The other box works fine, but it has a static IP address. My smb.conf
file is configured the same as that computers, but I use dhcp to grab an
IP from the DNS server. I'm not very fluent in networks, and what
little bit I do know I picked up as I've struggled with this problem. My
hosts file looks like this;
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
"my nameserver's IP address" "computer name" "computername+domain name"
My lmhosts file looks like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
"my nameserver's IP address" "my computer's name"
Anymore ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanx,
SA
