The best advice is to walk through DIAGNOSIS.txt. To find it, locate DIAGNOSIS.txt This sounds like name resolution isn't working or you have a firewall problem.
Joel On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:18:51PM -0500, Katherine Chan wrote: > > My Linux XP (hostname "isat", IP 192.168.1.8) is in the same workgroup > as my Microsoft PC running Windows 2003 (IP 192.168.1.7). > On my Linux host, I have a [public] section in the smb.conf file, as shown > at the end of this message. > > When I typed the command > smbclient '\\isat\public' > the following message was displayed: > added interface ip=192.168.1.8 bcast=192.168.1.15 nmask=255.255.255.240 > password: > > I typed in the password for the owner of directory /home/public. > The following text was displayed: > Domain=[WORKGROUP] Os=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.7a] > Smb:\> > > This shows that I can connect to a file service. > > I then go to the DOS command screen on my Windows PC and > typed the following to map network drive g: to directory /home/public on my Linux XP > net use g: \\isat\public > > The following error message was displayed: > System error 53 has occurred > The network path was not found > > I also tried the following: > > >From the Windows PC > My Network Places --> Computers Near Me > > I can see "isat" under the "Name" column with > comment "Samba server" > > But when I clicked on entry "isat", the following error message > was displayed: > \\isat is not accessible > The Network path was not found > I can ping the Linux IP 192.168.1.8 from my Windows PC > and I can also ping my Windows PC IP 192.168.1.7 from the Linux XP > but I cannot ping the Linux hostname "isat" from the Windows PC. > > My /home/public directory on the Linux XP has mode 0777 (rwxrwxrwx). > Do you know what could be causing this problem? > > Thanks! > > Katherine > > > ===================================================== > Some of the relevant lines in my smb.conf file are shown below: > > [global] > workgroup = WORKGROUP > hosts allow = 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.240 127. > security = user > log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log > max log size = 0 > dns proxy = no > > [homes] > comment = Home Directories > browseable = no > writable = yes > valid users = %S > create mode = 0664 > directory mode = 0775 > > [public] > path = /home/public > public = yes > only guest = yes > writable = yes > printable = no > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
