Samba on RedHat 6.1

[Steve Litt]

Next time you go to 6.1, be sure to explicitly specify netbios name= and
workgroup=<same as client workgroup>. I've found these two steps almost
always cure such problems.

If you really want to blow that problem out of the water, include these:

os level=255
preferred master=yes
local master=yes
wins support=yes

Wait 30 seconds after Samba restart and you'll be seeing all. Of course,
don't do this if you already have an NT machine acting as lmb/wins, etc in
a production environment. Yes, I know local master=yes is the default, but
I specify it for superstitious reasons :-)

Steve Litt



At 07:34 AM 12/14/1999 +1100, Ethan Vaughn wrote:
>I tried to get samba working on RH6.1 and gave up. Went back to 6.0 and
>it worked perfectly. Can't explain it. I was pushed for time, so I
>haven't checked redHat Errata. Might want to check it out and let us all
>know what you find.
>
>FYI: on RH6.1 I could see all shares from smbclient, even log onto the
>win95/98 workstations, but could never get to the Samba share from
>win95/98, not even with "find:computer." I took the same smb.conf, and
>the same version of samba to a RH6.0 installation and have been fine
>with it ever since.
>
>__________________
>Ethan Vaughn
>vaughne at home.com
>
>
>MattHalliday wrote:
>
>We're trying to get samba running on a RH 6.1 server installation,
>runnijng as a trial.  So far we can only see the server on 2 NT 4/SP4
>workstations and not on the Windows 95 clients, and then only if we do a
>
>Start/Find/Computers.  I can map a drive to a share, and can reconnect
>to it after rebooting the NT workstation, but can't see the server in
>Network Neighborhood.    TCP/IP is running fine - I can ping both ways,
>I assume NetBIOS is not running properly.  How can I check?  smb.conf
>seems fine, inetd.conf also looks good.  It's taking us ages to sort it
>- can anyone help please.
>
>Thanks
>Matt Halliday            matthewh at fesa.co.uk
>
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