what sp do the w2k machines have on them? Brandon Caudle -------------- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) Larkhaven Golf Course Charlotte, NC "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." -- Henry Kissinger >From: "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Brandon Caudle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [newbie] Samba (client problems) >Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 13:28:32 +0800 > >Can somebody explain that to me? > >I have samba 2.2.1a working here on LM7.2, and all computers show up in all >network neighbourhoods, and smbclient can see them all as well... > >the private home directories work great as well, each login getting access >to their own home directory.. > >on a win98 machine, that works perfectly and they can read and write the >files in there... > >(the smbpasswords are the same as the user passwords....) > >The windows 2000 boxs can only see the files and directories, it can't read >them,,, gets permission denied messages.. > >there were some issues with win2000 and samba in the past, but 2.2.1a is >supposed to work fine with it now, so I am lost as to why it isn't... > >also, the laser printer (Kyocera FS-800) works great from Kups, and is seen >in network neighourhood, and can even be installed on the windows box's, >but >anything spooled to it just disappears... its got me knackered... I have >smb.conf set to show and allow printing to all printers, and I also setup >the printer as a share manually to see if that helped... it didn't. > > I followed the samba howto on the mandrake forum hoping that would fix >things, but it listed settings almost identical to my own... so it didn't >help.. > > >can anyone shed some light onto my two problems? > >rgds > >Frank > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brandon Caudle >Sent: Friday, 17 August 2001 3:59 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba (client problems) > > >Actually it can auto create accounts now! >And you don't have to have machine trust accounts for 95/98/me only nt and >2000 > >Brandon Caudle >-------------- >15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) >Larkhaven Golf Course >Charlotte, NC > >"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." -- Henry >Kissinger >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Richie de Almeida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Serge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 1:19 PM >Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba (client problems) > > > > I had a similar prblem about a year ago with Samba, LM7.0 and NT 4 >Server. > > The solution was to add the LM7.0's 'remote computer account' to the NT >4 > > server. > > > > All I know about it is that between Windows machines, the 'computer >account' > > gets configured automatically by RPC. I think Samba lacks this feature > > becuase they kinda have to be missing some features, otherwise M$ could >sue > > their butts off. > > > > On the NT server, you could add these computer accounts from the User >Manager > > for Domains. Now I don't know if you need to do this sort of thing with > > Win98 and workgroup configurations, but it may be worth a look if it >turns > > out that it isn't a firewall issue... > > > > Richie > > > > > > On Saturday 11 August 2001 08:45, Serge wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Firstly, I've only been using Linux for a little over a week now when >I > > > installed Linux Mandrake 8.0 onto a second PC I put together. I >thought >I > > > was progressing well in the Linux learning curve until I was brought >back > > > to earth with this problem. > > > > > > I have setup a home network consisting of a PC running Linux Mandrake >and a > > > second PC running Windows 98. The Linux PC has a 56K modem attached >and >the > > > Windows PC has a printer attached. I have enabled internet connection > > > sharing between the 2 PC's without any problems. > > > > > > I have now setup Samba on the Linux PC. I can access the drives and >printer > > > of the Windows 98 PC from Linux Mandrake however I cannot access the >shares > > > on the Linux Mandrake PC from Windows 98. Network Neighborhood shows > > > nothing. I have read countless Samba how-to's and guides and still >cannot > > > get it working. > > > > > > My only guess at this stage is that the firewall may be the problem >(I'm > > > using the one you configure in the Mandrake Control Centre), however >I'm > > > not sure on how to set it up properly to work with Samba (if this is >the > > > problem). > > > > > > For information, below is a copy of my "smb.conf" file. > > > > > > I seem to have the network working in one direction but not the other. >Does > > > anyone know what I'm doing wrong? > > > > > > Secondly, what do I add to the fstab file to get Linux to mount the >Windows > > > 98 drives automatically on boot up? > > > > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Serge > > > > > > # Samba config file > > > [global] > > > workgroup = WORKGROUP > > > server string = Samba Server %v > > > hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127. > > > client code page = 850 > > > character set = ISO8859-1 > > > printcap name = lpstat > > > load printers = yes > > > printing = cups > > > log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m > > > max log size = 50 > > > security = share > > > map to guest = Bad User > > > encrypt passwords = yes > > > smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd > > > socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 > > > os level = 33 > > > preferred master = yes > > > > > > [homes] > > > comment = Home Directories > > > browseable = yes > > > writeable = Yes > > > > > > [printers] > > > comment = All Printers > > > path = /var/spool/samba > > > create mask = 0700 > > > guest ok = Yes > > > printable = Yes > > > print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client >side > > > printer drivers. > > > lpq command = lpstat -o %p > > > lprm command = cancel %p-%j > > > > > > [tmp] > > > comment = Temporary file space > > > path = /tmp > > > guest ok = yes > > > writable = yes > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
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