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Samba Server not in Network Neighborhood

Post by pete » Sun, 02 May 1999 04:00:00




says...

Quote:>  I have a RedHat 5.2 machine running Samba(v 1.9.18p10-3).  I edited the
> default smb.conf putting entries for the groupname, added a share, and added
> some allowable hosts.  I ran testparm, which found no errors, but I can't see
> it on the network (I even ran a 'Find Computer...' for it w/ no success).  I
> can't map a drive to the share I created either.  Any ideas?

> --

1) you have nmbd run also ?
2) you can mount samba-shares with net use ?
3) you have enabled browsing access by enabling a guest-account ?
4) you have read the encryption.txt if you run nt4 ?
5) you know that the latest smb-version is 2.0.x ?

sorry for this unpolite enumerated questions, but I just wrote a
presentation-paper and I cant get this out of my head ;)

peter

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Samba Server not in Network Neighborhood

Post by Charles R. Thompso » Mon, 03 May 1999 04:00:00


Quote:>1) you have nmbd run also ?
>2) you can mount samba-shares with net use ?
>3) you have enabled browsing access by enabling a guest-account
?
>4) you have read the encryption.txt if you run nt4 ?
>5) you know that the latest smb-version is 2.0.x ?

Let's not forget the classics (which should probably be checked
before fiddling about with services)...

6) Can you ping the machine's IP address from DOS?
7) Can you ping the machine by domain name and nickname?
8) Is the machine's name and ip address in the hosts file?

Quote:>sorry for this unpolite enumerated questions, but I just wrote
a
>presentation-paper and I cant get this out of my head ;)

I've got alot of *up there in mine, but glad one of them
isn't a presentation paper. :)

CT

 
 
 
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Samba Server not in Network Neighborhood

Post by Drew Northu » Mon, 03 May 1999 04:00:00


I've got another one to add:
9) Are you running on a valid DNS?
I have an isolated "simulation internet" running in my bedroom and I have
found that samba has some identity problems without valid DNS to help out.
Drew Northup, N1XIM
Quote:>>1) you have nmbd run also ?
>>2) you can mount samba-shares with net use ?
>>3) you have enabled browsing access by enabling a guest-account
>?
>>4) you have read the encryption.txt if you run nt4 ?
>>5) you know that the latest smb-version is 2.0.x ?

>Let's not forget the classics (which should probably be checked
>before fiddling about with services)...

>6) Can you ping the machine's IP address from DOS?
>7) Can you ping the machine by domain name and nickname?
>8) Is the machine's name and ip address in the hosts file?

 
 
 
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Samba Server not in Network Neighborhood

Post by pete » Mon, 03 May 1999 04:00:00




Quote:> I've got another one to add:
> 9) Are you running on a valid DNS?
> I have an isolated "simulation internet" running in my bedroom and I have
> found that samba has some identity problems without valid DNS to help out.
> Drew Northup, N1XIM

I use WINNS for my nt4-samba-network. my sambamachine is also winns-
server (a samba-feature). this also will reduce networktraffic (someone
said in faq)

peter

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Samba Server not in Network Neighborhood

Post by Claus Flachenecke » Wed, 05 May 1999 04:00:00



>  I have a RedHat 5.2 machine running Samba(v 1.9.18p10-3).  I edited the
> default smb.conf putting entries for the groupname, added a share, and added
> some allowable hosts.  I ran testparm, which found no errors, but I can't see
> it on the network (I even ran a 'Find Computer...' for it w/ no success).  I
> can't map a drive to the share I created either.  Any ideas?

A friend of mine had the same problem. The answer was the following in his case:

The automatic linux installation also started a dummy network device with the
same ip address as the real ethernet interface. After removing the dummy
interface entry, everything was fine.
So maybe you run ifconfig and see if you have the same problem....

Good luck,
Claus

 
 
 
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Samba Server not in Network Neighborhood

Post by Bernhard Bruec » Wed, 05 May 1999 04:00:00



> I now have the same problem.  I have been running RH 5.2 with Samba for 3-4
> months without any problems.  All of a sudden, I can no longer see the Samba
> server from windoz.  I can ping, telnet, and run X sessions from the same
> machine but no samba.

Is the nmbd deamon alive at the Server ? It is responsible for announcing
the shares. You can try to raise the log level with "kill -USR1 <nmbd PID>"
without restarting the service (please have a look at the nmbd man pages).
Even if there is a problem with brosing you can still connect to samba
without it. Just try to map a network drive and give the explicit path
to samba (something like "\\myserver\myshare" )

Hope that helps,
  Bernhard

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Samba Server not in Network Neighborhood

Post by mon.. » Mon, 24 May 1999 04:00:00



>> I have a RedHat 5.2 machine running Samba(v 1.9.18p10-3).  I edited the
>> default smb.conf putting entries for the groupname, added a share, and
>added
>> some allowable hosts.  I ran testparm, which found no errors, but I can't
>see
>> it on the network (I even ran a 'Find Computer...' for it w/ no success).
>> can't map a drive to the share I created either.  Any ideas?
>> Morgan Terry


Have you filled in the HOSTS and lmhosts files on BOTH the linux and
Win machines?   You must do that.   Also check and make sure your
machine names and DNS #'s coincide.
 
 
 
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Samba Server not in Network Neighborhood

Post by Lothar Krenzie » Fri, 28 May 1999 04:00:00


Adding "encrypt passwords = yes" to the smb.conf file and restart samba
. Maybe it works . But I'm not sure.

Lothar

 
 
 
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1. Samba problems: Samba not in Network Neighborhood

I have (the latest) Samba installed and have two problems that I can't
seem to solve.

First, my setup: Machine 1 is linux/samba machine.  Machine 2 is Win
95 and Machine 3 is WfWG 3.11 with TCP/IP.  They connect with
ethernet.  All machines can ping each other and the other TCP stuff
works fine.

Machines 2 and 3 can mount each other's drives and printers fine.
Machine 2 can mount the Samba shares but only after I run the "Find
Computer" tool.  It doesn't appear in the Network Neighborhood with
the other machines.

I used smbclient to verify that Machine 1 can mount look at the shares
on all three machines and the Workgroup name is the same.

I was able to drag a shortcut into network neightborhood but that's
not the same as actually being there.

A possibly related problem is machine 3, the Win 3.11 one, cannot see
the samba shares at all.  The server doesn't appear.

Is there some Samba option that I don't have enabled?  With the Win 95
machine it's only annoying not having it in the Neighborhood but it is
entirely unusable from machine 3.  This I really need to fix.

BTW: One further problem I haven't looked at too closely: All the
mounted shares are done as "pcguest" and not as the username logged in
to win 95.  I have the same username/password on both machines.  Is
there a Win 95 option somewhere I need to change?

thanks, jv


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