Hello Everyone, I have recently built a new CentOS 4 server and I am having trouble with Samba and specifically Netbios names. The server also acts as a router, firewall, dhcp, and so on.
I have a very simple setup and no matter what I try, I can't get to my samba server by name. The servers IP is: 192.168.1.1 The server name is: www I can not ping www (my XP workstation says "could not find host www") I can not access my samba shares with \\www If I type in \\192.168.1.1 everything works fine I kept thinking it was my firewall (shorewall configured with webmin), but even when I turn the firewall off, I still have the same problem. I have tried many combinations of opened ports on my firewall with no success. Right now I have: loc to firewall open on UDP 137 loc to firewall open on TCP 137, 138, 139 loc to firewall open on TCP 445 I had a fedora server in the past and samba worked like a dream. I'm down to a really simple smb.conf. Here that is: [global] workgroup = workgroup # netbios name = WWW (I have tried it with and without this line) security = user encrypt passwords = yes [homes] browseable = yes writeable = yes Here is my hosts file 127.0.0.1 www.mydomain.com www localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.1 www Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba