-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 06:12 PM 12/7/2001 -0500, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: >First: > >Are all three machines "members" of the same workgroup?
Yes, they are. >Are you SURE that you've defined the Workgroup name in Samba the SAME as >that used on your other Winblows boxes? Yes, I have. >Second: > >When you log into windows you are asked for a user name and password. > >This user name and password, gets passed to Samba whenever you connect >to a share and browse the network. Not on the Win95 machine. The Win95 machine prompts for a password. >Thus a Linux/Unix account AND a corresponding Samba account must exist >for each of these login name/password pairs. In other words, both the Windows computers and the Linux box has to have identical user/password combinations? >I.E. you need to use smbadduser and smbpasswd to add the SAMBA users to >Linux's SAMBA user/password lists. > >ALWAYS double check this using SMBCLIENT > >"smbclient -L LINUXBOX -U WINUSER " > >Asks the Samba "Linuxbox", to log in as "WINUSER" and present the >shares. LINUXBOX && WINUSER == the machine name? >When you configured SAMBA, you should have also enabled the NMB >component and enabled SAMBA to be the BROWSE MASTER for your network or >domain. Done. >This is what presents the shares to the Winblows workstations. (the >icons). > >If you havent increase the OS LEVEL in samba, the browse master will be >decided by election amoung your computers (REALLY they vote!). When >things change the browse list(s) dissappear for awhile until things get >sorted out again. The OS level was not changed. >If your Linux box is up all the time, make it the BROWSE MASTER so that >things will not keep shifting and disappearing. > >Did you also remember to define the DEVICES (aka IP ADDRESSES) using the >INTERFACES = Line? Yes. >If not Samba will not broadcast it's information until something nudges >it. > >-JMS I made some progress. I am able to access the Win95 machine from the Linux box but not vice-versa. I am unable to connect to the Win2K machine and vice-versa. Here's one error I get: added interface ........ (addressing deleted) added interface ........ (addressing deleted) session request to N0SQ failed (Not listening for calling name) session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening for calling name) > >|-----Original Message----- >|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >|[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lee Roberts >|Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 5:40 PM >|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >|Subject: Re: [newbie] internet sharing setup >| >| >|Speaking of Samba, I get the icon for the Linux box to show >|up on my Win2K & Win95 clients but I can't browse the Linux >|box. And if I restart Windows, I have to restart the services >|on the Linux box before I can display the network icons again >|- that sucks. Win95 asks for a password to try to access the >|Linux box - that fails, of course. I used the procedure for >|Samba from the techtv.com website. Apparently, it's not that >|easy to set up Samba. So, what am I doing wrong? BTW, I can >|ping all 3 machines on my network - can't share files with any >|of them even though the icons show up on the Windows boxes. >|And internet connection sharing works OK. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8EmqgjCg8oFTHzFARArlLAJ9vGRPgIf1csO5j9NG0nonirXoz2gCgnd/m 6TuGqPJfO/waGmtpPTTO11o= =QaWl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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