[newbie] nmb freezing system
i just installed mandrake8.1 and during startup, it freezes when loading nmb. however, when i start the system in failsafe mode and turn the nmb/samba service to start manually, i'm able to boot up without a problem. anyone know why this might be happening? thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nmb freezing system
On Saturday 16 March 2002 11:15 am, tek1 wrote: i just installed mandrake8.1 and during startup, it freezes when loading nmb. however, when i start the system in failsafe mode and turn the nmb/samba service to start manually, i'm able to boot up without a problem. anyone know why this might be happening? Did you look in the log files, may be a clue in there. /var/log/samba/log.nmbd /var/log/samba/log.smbd If you don't find anything there, check your anti-freeze ;-) -- Gerald Waugh http://frontstreetnetworks.com New Haven, Connecticut USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nmb freezing system
On Saturday 16 March 2002 03:11 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Saturday 16 March 2002 11:15 am, tek1 wrote: i just installed mandrake8.1 and during startup, it freezes when loading nmb. however, when i start the system in failsafe mode and turn the nmb/samba service to start manually, i'm able to boot up without a problem. anyone know why this might be happening? Did you look in the log files, may be a clue in there. /var/log/samba/log.nmbd /var/log/samba/log.smbd /var/log/dmesg also If you don't find anything there, check your anti-freeze ;-) -- Gerald Waugh http://frontstreetnetworks.com New Haven, Connecticut USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NMB Services.
I finally got NMB services to boot [OK] when I start up. But, I still can't see my computer on another NT box's netbios. I ran the nmbd -B 'server name' and got back the correct IP addres for my server. I also ran nmbd -d 'server name' '*' and got back a slew of IP addresses from the server. So, I believe that my Linux box is correctly communicating with the NT server. The way I corrected the NMB [FAILS] at boot problem was to add the servers' name and IP address to hosts and lmhosts files. Also I left the hostname on netconf as localhost.localdomain and left out the gateway address and netmask address. This left my netconf almost the way it was when I first installed the Mandrake 6.1 distribution. If anyone knows how to fix my current problem I would be most appreciative. Thanx, SA
[newbie] NMB problems. Help Please.
First, let me apologize if this email comes out looking funky and you can't read it. I am posting from my webmail at linux-start.com. In the past people ignored my email because it only read as on long line. I don't know what causes this or how to fix it. Second, I am having problems getting NMB services to work correctly on my linux box. I am using the Mandrake 6.0 distribution with the SAMBA distribution that came with Mandrake. The first time I booted into this distribution NMB came up [OK] on boot up. Yet, after connecting to the network with netconf NMB comes up [FAILED] at boot up. I think I may have isolated the problem. (But then again I could be totally wrong since my network experience is limited.) I connect to the NT domain with DHCP. If there is any DHCP SAMBA issues out there, I am unaware of them. But when I run the command /usr/bin/smbclient -L (the computer's hostname) I get a message saying that SAMBA failed to get the hostname. Could this resolution problem be due to DHCP? I don't have a hostname on the NT server because I let DHCP connect my computer to the NT domain and receive a temporary IP address that way. (Or at least thats is how I think it works. Once again, my knowledge of networks is limited) Also, when I say (the computer's hostname), I am refering to the hostname without the domain name in it, or the name of the computer. I tried to use another computers name that I know of on the NT Domain and I got the same messages, except that the unresolvable hostname was that of the computer I was trying to connect to. Therefor, I assumed the problem was due to DHCP and resolving of the hostname. I apologize if this does not make alot of sense, but it does not make a lot of sense to me either. Yet, I would really appreciate any help that anyone could give me to help me resolve this matter. Thanx in advance, SA -- Do you do Linux? :) Get your FREE @linuxstart.com email address at: http://www.linuxstart.com
[newbie] NMB fails at boot.
Since my last post I have narrowed the focus of the problem to a couple of issues. When I leave the resolve portion of the netconf blank and the resolv.conf file has the word search in the first line, NMB boots [OK]. Yet, I am unable to connect to the internet. If I add the DNS domain and nameserver address to the resolv portion of netconf and remove the word search from the first line of resolv.conf, NMB services [fail] at boot, but I am able to connect to the internet. The other Linux box on our NT network has a static IP address and host is set to manual in the host info portion of the netconf. It also has the DNS domain and the nameserver address in the resolv portion of the netconf. This linux box works fine. I am unable to have a static IP address for my machine and have to use DHCP in the host portion of the netconf. These are the two issues I have been able to narrow down so far. Any ideas? Thank you for your help. SA __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] NMB
I configured the samba.conf files. The problem seems to lie with the fact that NMB fails at boot. This is an integral part of samba so that I can see my computer through "Network Neighborhood", or at least I'm told. I don't know why NMB fails at boot. I installed the SAMBA package when I installed Mandrake 6.0. There is another linux box on our network that can be seen and it was installed with Redhat 6.0. But I don't believe this is the problem because my linux box couldn't be seen when I had redhat 6.0 installed. Maybe there is something I didn't compile in the Kernel? SA From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NMB Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:57:00 -0400 Sean Armstrong wrote: I am trying to get my computer to talk with the network with SMB. I was told that I need NMB also. On startup, SMB loads fine but NMB fails. Is there something in the kernel i need to install and if so, can i reconfigure that part of my kernel without having to recompile the whole kernel. You probably just need to configure the Samba configuration files. Check in /usr/doc/samba-version for more information. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
Re: [newbie] NMB
Sean Armstrong wrote: I configured the samba.conf files. The problem seems to lie with the fact that NMB fails at boot. This is an integral part of samba so that I can see my computer through "Network Neighborhood", or at least I'm told. I don't know why NMB fails at boot. I installed the SAMBA package when I installed Mandrake 6.0. There is another linux box on our network that can be seen and it was installed with Redhat 6.0. But I don't believe this is the problem because my linux box couldn't be seen when I had redhat 6.0 installed. Maybe there is something I didn't compile in the Kernel? SA It'd be most important to find out why NMB is failing at boot. It's likely to be causing the same sort of problem later. I believe there's a "log level" option you can add to /etc/samba.conf to cause it to log everything to the system logs. Try that and post the results. Sean Armstrong wrote: I am trying to get my computer to talk with the network with SMB. I was told that I need NMB also. On startup, SMB loads fine but NMB fails. Is there something in the kernel i need to install and if so, can i reconfigure that part of my kernel without having to recompile the whole kernel. You probably just need to configure the Samba configuration files. Check in /usr/doc/samba-version for more information. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] NMB
Sean Armstrong wrote: I am trying to get my computer to talk with the network with SMB. I was told that I need NMB also. On startup, SMB loads fine but NMB fails. Is there something in the kernel i need to install and if so, can i reconfigure that part of my kernel without having to recompile the whole kernel. You probably just need to configure the Samba configuration files. Check in /usr/doc/samba-version for more information. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] NMB Problem anew...
Title: RE: [newbie] NMB Problem anew... As someone who went through this just last night (thanks Axalon!) I think I can help. There are three steps from where I think you are to you having a (more or less) working system: 1. If you edit the smb.conf directly, you will see several master settings. You probably don't want Linux to be the Master unless you *really* know what you're doing. (Regardless of the warm and fuzzy feeling it might give you.) 2. Also in smb.conf you need to find the remote announce property and add the subnets you want to see your box. (Typically, this will be your IP address and then change the last number to 255 -- that's a *really* gross oversimplification, but it should get you up and running.) 3. So long as the HOSTNAME and DOMAIN in netconf seem to be correct you can probably get rid of the DNS server from hosts and just put it's IP in resolv.conf where it goes (DHCPcd should do this for you automatically). That should get you up and running. Creating accounts and stuff is another matter. *I'm* still working on that. ;-) ~Mike -Original Message- From: Sean Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 9:43 AM To: Newbie List for Mandrake Subject: [newbie] NMB Problem anew... Ok. Since I last posted this problem I have found that I can correct the NMB [FAILS] at boot up time by changing the Hostname in netconf to localhost.localdomain and adding the dns server name and IP address to the hosts and lmhosts files. I can talk to the network this way, but I can not see my computer on the network when I use someone elses NT box. If I change the hostname to the correct name for my computer in netconf, then NMB fails again and I can not talk to the network properly and can still not see my computer on the network. I do not have a static IP address for my computer and use DHCP to connect to the DNS server. I wish to keep using DHCP, because I would prefer to not tie up another of the company's IP addresses. Does anyone have any idea why SAMBA has such problems with DHCP? Thanx, SA
Re: [newbie] NMB Problem anew...
Mike Abney wrote: As someone who went through this just last night (thanks Axalon!) I think I can help. There are three steps from where I think you are to you having a (more or less) working system: 1. If you edit the smb.conf directly, you will see several "master" settings. You probably don't want Linux to be the Master unless you *really* know what you're doing. (Regardless of the warm and fuzzy feeling it might give you.) 2. Also in smb.conf you need to find the "remote announce" property and add the subnets you want to see your box. (Typically, this will be your IP address and then change the last number to 255 -- that's a *really* gross oversimplification, but it should get you up and running.) 3. So long as the HOSTNAME and DOMAIN in netconf seem to be correct you can probably get rid of the DNS server from hosts and just put it's IP in resolv.conf where it goes (DHCPcd should do this for you automatically). That should get you up and running. Creating accounts and stuff is another matter. *I'm* still working on that. ;-) ~Mike -Original Message- From: Sean Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 9:43 AM To: Newbie List for Mandrake Subject: [newbie] NMB Problem anew... Ok. Since I last posted this problem I have found that I can correct the NMB [FAILS] at boot up time by changing the Hostname in netconf to localhost.localdomain and adding the dns server name and IP address to the hosts and lmhosts files. I can talk to the network this way, but I can not see my computer on the network when I use someone elses NT box. If I change the hostname to the correct name for my computer in netconf, then NMB fails again and I can not talk to the network properly and can still not see my computer on the network. I do not have a static IP address for my computer and use DHCP to connect to the DNS server. I wish to keep using DHCP, because I would prefer to not tie up another of the company's IP addresses. Does anyone have any idea why SAMBA has such problems with DHCP? Thanx, SA Dhcp already puts the nameserver IP in resolv.conf . If I take my computer name out of the hosts or lmhosts file, NMB [FAILS] at boot up. I added the subnet to the "remote announce" , but I still can't see my computer on someone else's NT box. In case I didn't mention this before, My computer is one of two linux boxes on an NT network here at work. The other box works fine, but it has a static IP address. My smb.conf file is configured the same as that computers, but I use dhcp to grab an IP from the DNS server. I'm not very fluent in networks, and what little bit I do know I picked up as I've struggled with this problem. My hosts file looks like this; 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain "my nameserver's IP address""computer name" "computername+domain name" My lmhosts file looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost "my nameserver's IP address""my computer's name" Anymore ideas would be much appreciated. Thanx, SA
