Very Computer

I hope I am painting a clear pictute of my problem

Thanks
Guise

Try doing a find computer via IP address.... also tell samba to
broadcast itself to the win98 client.  

Quote:>I have installed the samba suite on my RH Linux 7.1 on the corp LAN.
>I have edit he smb.conf according to my specs. Fired the smbd & nmbd
>daemon and was able to to see the linux host machine from a win 98 Pc
>on the Lan.
>However when I tried to access the share directory I was not able to
>see anything accept the this error message:
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>\\"machine name' not accessible. The computer or the share name could
>not be found. Make sure you type it correctly and try again.
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Is it anything to do with ipchain firewall? I have issued "smbclient
>-L host id" I was expecting to see the share folder
>/home/samba/export/ but what I saw was Sharename: homes Type: Disk
>Comment: Directories plus the server host name. The Linux machine
>often disappeared from the workgroup after sometimes even though the
>daemon is up and running? In order to see it again I had deactivate
>and reactivate the samba daemons.

>I hope I am painting a clear pictute of my problem

>Thanks
>Guise

Hi!,

Quote:> I have installed the samba suite on my RH Linux 7.1 on the corp LAN.
> I have edit he smb.conf according to my specs. Fired the smbd & nmbd
> daemon and was able to to see the linux host machine from a win 98 Pc
> on the Lan.
> However when I tried to access the share directory I was not able to
> see anything accept the this error message:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> \\"machine name' not accessible. The computer or the share name could
> not be found. Make sure you type it correctly and try again.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Is it anything to do with ipchain firewall? I have issued "smbclient
> -L host id" I was expecting to see the share folder
> /home/samba/export/ but what I saw was Sharename: homes Type: Disk
> Comment: Directories plus the server host name. The Linux machine
> often disappeared from the workgroup after sometimes even though the
> daemon is up and running? In order to see it again I had deactivate
> and reactivate the samba daemons.

Additionally, you may want to take a look through the SAMBA logs and see
whether there is anything in there which is causing you problems.  One final
thing is to make sure that your firewall is not blocking any traffic on the
137-139 port (TCP/UDP) range.

See ya

Dean Thompson

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