Samba on Solaris and NT browsing problem.

Chris Hackett chris.hackett at publixdirect.com
Thu Apr 26 20:44:51 GMT 2001


Hello all,

I'll try to give as much information as possible for troubleshooting
purposes.  I apologize if this is more information that the list typically
likes to get.  Some mailing lists I'm on get irritated if posters don't
provide adequate debug info.  This is a LARGE message.  If there is
additional information needed, please let me know, and I'll be happy to
provide more targeted debug data.

Problem:
When trying to access a share from my Windows NT 4.00.1381 machine, I can
browse to the machine, and the share folder appears, but when attempting
access the share, the message "\\Elgato\documentation is not accessible. The
network name cannot be found.' is displayed.

Platform:

I have Samba v. 2.0.7 running on Solaris 7.  The OS has all core and
recommended patches installed.  The Samba version was downloaded from
va.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/solaris/Sparc/samba-2.0.7-sparc-sun-s
olaris2.7.tar.Z.  The packages seemed to install without issue.

System Files:

In /etc/services, I have the following three lines:
swat		901/tcp		# Swat Service for SAMBA
netbios-ns	137/udp		# NetBios Name Service
netbios-ssn	139/tcp		# NetBios Session

In /etc/inetd.conf, I have these corresponding lines:
swat stream tcp nowait root /opt/samba/bin/swat swat
netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root /opt/samba/bin/smbd smbd
netbios-ns dgram udp wait root /opt/samba/bin/nmbd nmbd

Samba Configuration:

Basically, everything is set to default.  I created a share called
"documentation" and pointed it to a directory called "/opt/eng-docs/"  The
permissions of /opt/eng-docs/ is 777 and is owned by root.  The hostname of
the Solaris machine is "elgato" and security is set to "Share"  I have the
"workgroup" parameter set to the same as the NT domain where the clients
are.

DIAG Results (from the DIAGNOSIS.html document):

TEST 1:


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