Well, I read quite a few documents; thanks for pointing them out... And I got "it" working...
The most important point I learned is P_a_t_i_e_n_c_e! You really have to wait a few minutes after having modified your smb.conf and restarted samba. And you have plenty of time to reboot your client, I am not sure whether you really need this, but anyway... it really takes quite some minutes before even the most limited changes have trickled through a (not really big) network. In general, I started removing lines from the "inherited" smb.conf, all lines of which I did not understand the purpose, and then restarting samba and the client, and see what happened. I still have some questions, though... First of all: what is a domain name in Samba? I only saw a workgroup name as the parameter. Just to try, I changed it into something completely different, and after some time I saw it appear as a workgroup. But then I could also enter it as a domain name (on W98 stations, anyway), and I could really log in to it. Even though I now have a PDC on the domain LIEMERS-MUSEUM, and a BDC (without a PDC) on the domain LIEMERS2MUSEUM, it seems to work. So my conjecture for the moment is that the domain name equals the workgroup name. Right? Second: in my inherited smb.conf, I have a share [users]. I do not know what it is for, but if I comment it out, the workgroup LIEMERS2MUSEUM vanishes from the Workgroups in the network Environment. So I guess it serves some purpose but which one? Third: I read quite a lot about how to set up various servers, but not too many details on exactly what the SMB protocols do. I read something about elections, and I think that part is fairly clear to me, but I am quite curious about what several parties in the game are really doing. For instance, when a server comes up, how does the rest of the world know? I commented out the remote announce line, so I guess that is not part of the mechanism. Anyway, if the server is initially the only node in the network, this will not be significant anyway. If a client comes up, what happens? Does it broadcast its presence throughout the network? Do all servers respond? I also read something about browser nodes, but how are they established? How do they announce their presence? In general: is there any detail documentation on MS SMB protocols, not just the message format but rather the exact mechanisms? They may be described somewhere, but I haven't discovered them yet... I have more questions, but these are the most pressing ones at the moment. Thanks a lot in advance for any clues. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba