Massive Problems with Samba

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

chuck,

i recall that my friend had similar nasty problems compiling samba until
he used gcc.

luke

On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, Chuck Carson wrote:

> Okay, first let me define my network.
> 
> This is a university environment so I cannot begin to lists all the routers,
> switches, and hubs my data travels thru, but this is basically what I have.
> 
> RS 6000 machine running AIX 4.2 with Samba installed.
> 
> Several Win95 (version a) machines with several active network drives
> mounted.
> 
> I have on each an lmhosts file with the following entry:   204.146.174.129
> digmo   #PRE
> I have both WINS addresses pointing to the digmo server (204.146.174.129)
> The win95 machines are on a Token Ring network.
> 
> When I try to map a network drive here is what I get:
> 
> This is what Ihave tried typing into the map drive window:
> 
> Try #1
> Drive F: (which is open)
> \\digmo\idrpt
> 
> Try #2
> Drive F:   (which is open)
> \\204.146.174.129\idrpt  (which is a defined share)
> 
> Try #3
> Drive G: (which is open)
> \\204.146.174.129\tmp  (another share)
> 
> .... Many more tries later....
> What is boils down to is that I have tried every possible share and drive
> letter open.
> 
> I get errors such as, "Netowork is busy" or "Cannot find computer of
> sharename".
> 
> Here is what irks me to no end:
> 
> My winNT machine finds everything fine with all of the above attempts. My
> winNT setup is identical to the win95 machines (except that I can specify
> the username to connect as) Even thru a local ip address via a second
> adapter (128.206.2.68)
> 
> I have pulled all of my hair out over this, any help is _greatly_
> appreciated.
> 
> To add to my aggravation, I downloaded the latest version to install (19pl5
> I believe) and get the following error when trying to compile:
> 
> Using CFLAGS
> = -O -DSMBLOGFILE="/usr/local/samba/var/log.smb" -DNMBLOGFILE="/usr/local/sa
> mba/var/log.nmb" -DCONFIGFILE="/usr/local/
> Using LIBS =
> Compiling server.c
> 1506-333 (S) License failure: acquire: No servers available for this vendor
> (network license server/library).
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
> 
> Stop.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Chuck
> 
> 
> 

<a href="mailto:lkcl at switchboard.net"  > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton  </a>
<a href="http://mailhost.cb1.com/~lkcl"> Samba Consultancy and Support </a>