More strange happenings with my LAN.
Andrew Bruno
abruno at zeta.org.au
Sun Dec 31 04:29:50 GMT 2000
Hi again to you all,
Late yesterday I got half my LAN working as I could access my Amiga drives
from my PeeCee.
I could not go the other way at that point.
Today I was trying to do it and found some interesting things happening to
me, and at one point the connection I did have didn't work anymore.
To explain:
I would turn on the machines and connect them. I would see the AMIGA in the
NN window of the PeeCee.
I would double click it and yesterday I got it working. Today when I did
it, I was back to the password problem.
Now, for some very odd reason, yesterday when I set up the password for
remote access I used the smbpasswd program like this:
smbpasswd -a pcguest
As was stated in the HTML document.
How confused then was I when today it wouldn't accept the -a
Anyway, cutting that out, after a few attempts (and restoring the original
file *) it started to work again. (* the original file: The smbpasswd
file that was generated yesterday.)
So, ok: That side is working again.
Ofcourse I didn't realise at the time, but where on the PeeCee is the
username "pcguest" told that is the username to be sent?
I am *NOT* logged on/in to the PeeCee as "pcguest" so that has me kind of
stumped now.
Now, today's project was to get the Amiga to see the PeeCee's drives. The
way I want it to be.
This is the mount list:
*Handler = L:SMB-Handler*
*Stacksize = 40000*
*Priority = 5*
*GlobVec = -1*
*Mount = 1*
*Startup = "C=\\586\PC MH=AMIGA W=MARY U=pcguest P=''"*
**
I get an error saying:
*Host 586 can not be contacted.*
(after a good while)
Not to be put off by that, I thought about it and tried editing the last
line to:
*Startup = "C=\\PC1\PC MH=AMIGA W=MARY U=pcguest P=''"*
(PC1 is an alias to the machine)
When I try that file:
Socket access from PC1 denied!
Hostname invalid (PC1 E:$82)
(straight away)
So does that mean that the "network" doesn't like that, or ......?
I am reading my way through the manuals, but I find it very difficult to
understand as it is not explained in a way I have any experiance. :-/
So, to go over my problems:
1) Where does the PeeCee get the name "pcguest" to send to my Amiga when I
double click on the NN entry? - as I am NOT logged in as that user.
2) How is the system told that "586" is a remote machine? Which file does
this?
3) What would be causing the error that I could access the Amiga drives
yesterday and not today? Only after mucking about and not really doing
anything did it start to work again.
4) With slight reference back to #1 So does it matter who the user is of
that machine (who logs in at the beginning) to wheather or not they will
get access to the Amiga?
Sorry. I don't know if they are or not curley questions. I am still way
down the bottom of the learning curve. :-)
Anyone help me?
P.S.
On that Amiga accessing the PeeCee drives problem. To test another theory,
I made the last line look like this:
*Startup = "C=\\AMIGA\PC MH=AMIGA W=MARY U=pcguest P=''"*
Thinking that I would get a new drive mounted.
I was asked for a password similar to what happened when I tried to access
the Amiga from the PeeCee.
I could cancel the requestor and go to the PeeCee and connect Ok. But then
if I tried to do it all on the Amiga, it would ask for a password. YET the
user was pcguest in both cases. Or so I believe. <:-/
Cya!
--
No sane man will dance.
Andrew Bruno
abruno at zeta.org.au
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