Login Win95 into NT server through SAMBA

[Patrick Ouellette]

At 12:48 PM 13/10/00 +0000, you wrote:
>No, you're not the first one to work through that. That's exactly what I've
>been doing for the past week. I got it all pretty much worked out. What part
>are you having trouble with? I'll see if I can be of any help...

Well, the login works like a charm, I've even managed to map the share on 
the NT server to run the login script through SAMBA - that was a mind 
bender. All of my TCP/IP is working fine, and I can browse the network and 
access shares on other Win9x/NT machines on the network.

What ISN'T working is other people trying to see me on the Network 
Neighborhood and accessing my shared printer and directories on my win98se 
machine. I'm not visible on the Network Neighborhood, and, the few times 
I've managed to BECOME visible, no shares show up.

Now, form my SAMBA machine, if I run "smbclient -L localhost", I see the 
entire network AND my Win9x machine.
Running "smbclient -L ouellep" [ouellep = my win9x machine], I can see my 
shares no problems.

I've included the content of my current smb.conf below - might help you to 
tell me what I missed/mucked up:

[global]
         workgroup = RIDEAU

         # -----------------------------------------------
         # Network information
         # External network = eth0, 205.211.51.136
         # Internal network = eth1, 192.168.1.1 & 192.168.1.2 (Win98se box 
- ouellep)
         # -----------------------------------------------
         interfaces = 205.211.51.136/255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0
         bind interfaces only = yes
         status = yes
         browseable = yes
         printing = bsd
         guest account = nobody
         admin users = root
         invalid users = admin, @wheel, mail, daemon, adt
         hosts allow = 192.168.1. 127.0.0.1 205.211. 24.114.4.200

         # -----------------------------------------------
         # Performance tuning
         # -----------------------------------------------
         getwd cache = yes
         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=32768 SO_RCVBUF=32768
         keep alive = 60
         dead time = 30
         read prediction = yes
         share modes = yes
         max xmit = 17384
         read size = 512
         locking = yes
         map hidden = yes
         map archive = yes
         map system = yes

         # -----------------------------------------------
         # Security & Domain info
         # -----------------------------------------------
         password server = RIDEAU-1
         security = server
         local master = yes
         preferred master = yes
         domain master = no
         #domain controller = RIDEAU-1 (this doesn't work ?!?)
         domain logons = yes
         wins server = 205.211.51.25
         dns proxy = no
         wins proxy = yes
         wins support = no
         netbios name = RB206b-Linux
         server string = RB206b-Linux Proxy/Router
         encrypt passwords = yes
         smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
         password level = 8
         username level = 8
         log level = 2
         name resolve order = lmhosts hosts wins bcast
         remote browse sync = 205.211.51.255
         remote announce = 205.211.51.255
         load printers = yes
         os level = 2
         logon script = netlogon.bat

[netlogon]
         comment = The domain logon service
         path = /exports         # smbmount'd share on NT server for login 
batch file
         guest ok = yes  public = no
         writeable = no
         share modes = no
         browseable = no

[printers]
         comment = All Printers
         path = /var/spool/samba
         browseable = no
         guest ok = yes
         writeable = no
         printable = yes


Sincerely,

Patrick Ouellette

Algonquin - Rideau Campus Room B206b
Phone: (613) 727-4723 ext 5904 / (613) 851-0873
E-Mail: pat at myrrdin.com / ouellep at algonquinc.on.ca
Web: http://www.algonquincollege.com/staff/ouellep