Yes...Another "newbie"

[Christian Barth]

John:

an other hint:
are you using RH 7.1. It now ships with a software fire wall. The 
default configuration is "medium security" and blocks the ports 137-
139 that are nessesary for samba. look for ipchains.

Christian


> John:
> did you create accounts for each of your users on the Linux box?  did you
> create machine accounts for each of the machines?  This is how
> authentication takes place in the absence of either Samba as a PDC or
> another machine acting as a PDC.  You must have encrypted passwords as well
> (which you said you do).
> 
> "net view" isn't going to work because you are not authenticated yet and as
> a result are not authorized to view the box contents.
> 
> James
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Marsteen
> To: samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 7:01 PM
> Subject: Yes...Another "newbie"
> 
> 
> I'm sure this thread has been re-hashed hundreds of times, but I, too, have
> been stumped by Samba.  I'm new to Linux, Samba, and this list, but am
> trying to utilize our Red Hat Linux box as a file server (only) for now on
> our Win2K network.  It doesn't need to be our PDC.  I've been all through
> the samba.conf file with no luck.  Those of us in the workgroup can see the
> Linux server in the Network Neighborhood, but when trying to access it, we
> consistently get "\\servername is not accessible."  We're running DHCP if
> that makes any difference.
> 
> I can ping the Linux server, I can see the shared folders when I run the
> smbclient -L command, but no matter what we do, we can't access that folder.
> I've tried enabling encrypted passwords and have set up encrypted passwords,
> but still with no luck.  We've gone through the "Diagnosing Your Samba
> Server" document, and everything looks great until TEST #8 (net view
> \\LINUXSERVER).  We get the same "Network Path Not Found" error.
> 
> Can anyone offer a suggestion?  My apologies if this thread has appeared yet
> again.  I've read through many similar threads - but if there is one similar
> to my own problem that I  have missed, a simple link to that thread would be
> fine.
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> -John
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