Are your workstations and your server on the same subnet? Is your nmbd service running?
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 08:42 -0600, Jeff Herbeck wrote: > Thanks! That worked, but that just seems like a way to "trick" it > into working. > > I have a unbuntu workstation that can't "see" www and another XP > machine that can't see www. > > Even with the change to my hosts file on this XP box, I still can't go > into network neighborhood and see www. Every other time I have setup > samba it was browseable and worked from any other computer with no > configuration > > Jeff > > On 11/12/06, S. J. van Harmelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Jeff, > > Sounds like a name resolution problem on your XP workstation. > Make sure > the following line is in C:\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts > on you XP > workstation: > > 192.168.1.1 www > > Then try to ping the www from your workstation again. If it > pings, then > \\www sould also work. > > Sander > > > On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 07:10 -0600, Jeff Herbeck wrote: > > 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