The following post was made today. > Hallo, Lucia, > > Du (lucia.frika) meintest am 03.07.08: > > > Hola, tengo un servidor con samba, openldap y bind9 pero no puedo > > pinguear una maquina por el nombre, si por la ip. > > That sounds like a misconfigured firewall. That's no samba problem. > > Viele Gruesse! > Helmut
The point I should like to make is that the statement "That sounds like a misconfigured firewall." may be HUGELY useful to the recipient. When a prospective Samba user (or the prospective user of any other piece of complex software that interfaces with other complex software) is struggling to find out *his* installation mistake/misunderstanding/etc., a comment such as the one above can be all that is needed for enlightenment. In the two or three days that I have been subscribed to this list I have seen posts where the unfortunate poster had been banging his head against a problem for, in one case, eight hours, in another case thirteen hours. I do not remember if these particular people received responses, and I have deleted the mailings. But I know from past experiences of lists that posters of "obvious" or other "trivial" problems often are ignored. In the case above, the poster was not ignored; and he may not have realised that he was looking in the wrong place. The above is the comment; but in the interest of straightforwardness I acknowledge that I have an axe to grind. I am a Samba user who has no wish to become a Samba expert. And I have what appears to me to be a problem with fairly clear data and, probably, a simple repair. But I do not know what that repair is. I am confident that many subscribers to this list can make good guesses as to what is wrong. But I have had no reponse to my posting; which is frustrating. dajo -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba