Problems with SMB.CONF (2nd)

[Majid Tajamolian]

Dear everyone and ROBERT!
Hi, thanks for your help, BUT......

On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Robert Dahlem wrote:

> 
> >I have 3 problems:
> 
> >1. Win95 and NT clients can not browse this machine even after 30 minutes.
> 
> Is your nmbd process started? Did you run through DIAGNOSIS.txt?

Yes, I started nmbd process correctly. The DIAGNOSIS.txt was not beneficial for
me. But I found out that this is occurred due to the 2nd problem! see bellow.

> 
> >;   hosts allow = *.bol.sharif.ac.ir
> >;   hosts allow = .bol.sharif.ac.ir
> >;   hosts allow = 194.225.42.*
> >   hosts allow = 194.225.42.
> 
> >2. As you see above, if I use a domain detector except with the format
> >   "194.225.42." , clients on our LAN can not see my machine or connect to
> >   it.
> 
> Cases 1 and 3 are clearly false. No asterisks are needed (man hosts_access).
> 
> Case 2 should work. How are the names of the clients resolved? Establish a 
> connection from some client. Then do
[snip]

OK. It's right but wonderful. The problem is caused by my /etc/hosts file.
This is a cut of it:
194.225.42.34   kordan arash    kordan.bol.sharif.ac.ir
194.225.42.35   kelard faz      kelard.bol.sharif.ac.ir
194.225.42.36   sahand afshin   sahand.bol.sharif.ac.ir
194.225.42.37   pol             pol.bol.sharif.ac.ir

The .bol.sharif.ac.ir tail did not appended to clients' names. I changed it
as followings and the problem was corrected:
194.225.42.34   kordan.bol.sharif.ac.ir         kordan arash
194.225.42.35   kelard.bol.sharif.ac.ir         kelard faz
194.225.42.36   sahand.bol.sharif.ac.ir         sahand afshin
194.225.42.37   pol2.bol.sharif.ac.ir           pol2

Is it a bug in SAMBA?!
Note that due to this problem the wins server could not see my machine so the
1st problem was occurred.

> 
> >3. The "dont descend" parameter for the "root" share name has not any
> >   effect!
> 
> Did you try it without the spaces like it is described in the example in "man 
> smb.conf"?

YES! But no effects! Why?!

-- Thanks again,
   M. Tajamolian