**Fwd: Mapped drives but server invisible from clients
Alder
ue191 at victoria.tc.ca
Sat Jul 20 06:26:49 GMT 2002
Sorry if my last post wasn't readable because of the digital signature.
It should be gone now.
I'm setting up Samba 2.0.6 on VMS 7.2 Alpha to share out files only (no
printers) to two Windows clients on a peer-to-peer, 10base2 home LAN.
For the most part, things work pretty well, but I would like to iron
out some wrinkles I'm running across with the smbclient tool and
browsing shares from the clients.
The LAN hosts are named and addressed as follows:
SZEGED [192.168.0.3] - Samba-VMS server
ISZKAZ [192.168.0.2] - Windows 2000 (print server)
KIRALY [192.168.0.1] - Windows ME (Internet Connection Sharing server
and LAN gateway to the Internet)
All hosts have a HOSTS file with entries for the other hosts on the LAN
and the two Windows clients use NetBEUI for Windows file and print
sharing. The KIRALY machine, because it is the ICS server, has an
internal ADSL modem which serves as a NAT router. For that reason too,
it has a second IP address dynamically allocated by my ISP. I also run
Nortel Networks VPN client on it so it has, from time-to-time, a third
IP address. KIRALY runs ZoneAlarm Free and has the entire LAN in its
Local Zone, i.e. the range of addresses 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.255
; smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = EREBUS
server string = OpenVMS Samba 2.0.6
encrypt passwords = yes
security = user
hosts allow = 192.168.0. localhost
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes
From SZEGED I run the following smbclient query and get the 3 lines
following that in response:
$ smbclient "-L" kiraly "-U" username%password
added interface ip=192.168.0.3 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
session request to KIRALY failed (Not listening on called name)
session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present)
But, if I run this:
$ smbclient "-L" kiraly "-I" 66.183.253.215 "-U" username%password
...the result is this:
added interface ip=192.168.0.3 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
PRINTER$ Disk
PDFWRITER Printer
STESSEN Disk
DS5 Disk
FS2002 Disk
TRANSFER Disk
F-PROT Disk
CD-ROM Disk CD-ROM drive on \\KIRALY
GYM Disk Championship Results Database
IPC$ IPC Remote Inter Process Communication
Server Comment
--------- -------
Workgroup Master
--------- -------
$
So I guess I have two questions to start with. Why does the first
SMBCLIENT query fail to find the correct name, while the second query
does, even though it not using the IP address specified for that name in
the HOSTS file?
Second question is: Shouldn't I be seeing something under Server/Comment
and Workgroup/Master?
Working from the Windows clients now, I run a simple NET VIEW and get a
list of only two servers: KIRALY and ISZKAZ. The Smaba server does not
appear. Running "NET VIEW \\SZEGED" I get "Error 53: The computer name
specified in the network path cannot be located...."
Can anyone help sort out one or more of these problems ? I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
Alder
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