Re: [Samba] Mac OS X user having problems connecting to samba running on Ubuntu Server

2011-03-23 Thread Santiago DIEZ
Thanks for sharing your own resolution. --- *Santiago DIEZ Directeur **Portable: +33 6 37 90 81 98 Bureau: +33 9 70 44 77 87* *32 boulevard de Strasbourg, 75010 Paris* On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Amit More wrote: > Hi all, > > Doing a bit of research on samba and hostname lead me to fi

Re: [Samba] Mac OS X user having problems connecting to samba running on Ubuntu Server

2011-03-22 Thread Amit More
Hi all, Doing a bit of research on samba and hostname lead me to find the actual cause of the problem. If you don't specify the "netbios name = " directive in the samba configuration(smb.conf) file, samba uses hostname as the netbios name (ref: http://www.justlinux.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-12

Re: [Samba] Mac OS X user having problems connecting to samba running on Ubuntu Server

2011-03-21 Thread Amit More
Hello all, After spending some time looking into the problem, I have found out that changing the hostname of the machine on which samba was running to be 16(or less) characters long did the trick. With "internalfileserver"(which is 18 characters long) as hostname Mac users were not able to conn

[Samba] Mac OS X user having problems connecting to samba running on Ubuntu Server

2011-03-17 Thread Amit More
Hello all, I have installed samba version 3.3.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 server 32-bit following the documentation https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/samba-fileserver.html Windows and Ubuntu users can see and mount the shares with no problem at all. Mac OS 10.6.x users can connect to samba from