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Today's Topics:
1. RE: Initial Samba 2.2.4 problems.
Jan-erik_Soderholm wrote:
Hi again. Well, now I think I'm running out of ideas. Does *anyone*
has a Win98 client connecting succesfully to a Samba 2.2.4 server ? On a DEC AXP 2000 model 300 ?
No experience with 2.2.4 other than downloading the kits.
> - Added "dns proxy = no"What did you had to do after the compile/link/install phases ? Is there anything in the SMB.CONF that is mandatory on VMS ? The things I'v changed are : - Added/changed the "workgroup" and "netbios name" entries. - Corrected the "printcap name" entry. - Changed "null passwords" to "yes".
> - Checked that the guest account ("samba__guest") exists and has
> a writeable home directory.
The SAMBA_GUEST account must have write access to SAMBA_ROOT:[VAR] for the versions that I have used.
Microsoft Windows 95 does not require an active "SAMBA__GUEST" account. I do not know if Windows 98 does either.
From discussions on the SAMBA-TECHNICAL list, it turns out that the "guest" account is not really a guest account, but a non-privileged user account used for various operations. It is called a guest account because apparently that is the name that Microsoft has given to that account.
> - I have not touched the [homes] or [printers] sections.
> - Added a [dist] and a [tmp] share.
This sounds a bit like the /flag=listen may be missing from the SMBD service.
When I do "NET VIEW \\my_server, I can see that the SMBD process working 5-10 sec, then I get some error on the client, such as
"network service unavailable" or something similar.
When I last looked at the Samba code, it appeared to try various case combinations. It did not try all case combinations. I do not think that this is your problem, but this should show up in the samba_root:[var] log files. Try increasing the logging level for SMBD.A few notes, Is the password the client send to the server case sensitive ? My PC user is "Janne", but the user in SMBPASSWD.DAT is (when using DUMP) "janne" in all lowercase. Is this of any importance ?
Anything special that must be loaded in network part of the client ? I'v tried to add NetBEUI, but saw no change.
Samba does not support NetBEUI.
There must be something fundamentional wrong here ! This is my SMB.CONF file, I have deleted all commented lines :
[MOZILLA mangled this, and I do not have time to decode it right now.]
The DIAGNOSE.TXT file (available on the http://www.samba.org mirror under documentation) gives a lot of pointers.There must be some easy steps like "How to verify and test your new SAMBA VMS installation" somewere.
I'm lost... A question, is Frontport still needed for 2.2.4 ??
I am seeing no evidence of this, but I have not looked in detail. -John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal Opinion Only
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