Newbie (groan... !) Client Problem

[Kohei Yoshida]

On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 12:54, George at durequip.com wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kohei Yoshida [mailto:kyoshida at mesco.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:24 AM
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: Re: Newbie (groan... !) Client Problem
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 12:03, George at durequip.com wrote:
> > > I have essentially the same configuration on the network at 
> > our company,
> > > with the addition of about 15 Win95/WIn98 boxes and the two 
> > Netware 4.1
> > > boxes on the network.  All the Win95 boxes can see the 
> > Samba server just
> > > fine, the NT PDC can see it, but my desktop NT4.0/SP6 box cannot. 
> > > 
> > > I can ping it, it can ping me, I can run SWAT, but 
> > SMBCLIENT cannot see my
> > > workstation and my workstation cannot see SAMBA.  It is 
> > just my machine that
> > > cannot connect.  All the Windows & NT boxes have TCP/IP, 
> > NETBEUI, NWLink
> > > IPX/SPX, and NWLink NETBIOS loaded.  The Netware boxes are 
> > running only IPX.
> > > At home, I may not have the NWLink stuff loaded; I don't recall.
> > 
> > This sounds to me like a wins problem.
> > 
> > Do you have a wins server running on your network?  If so, does your
> > machine have the correct wins server address?
> > 
> > Kohei
> > 
> Hmmm ... I don't think so.  No WINS server.  There is an internet nameserver
> identified of course, same on my home network.  Both networks are full time

If there is NO wins server, then I'd recommend setting one up and have
all the machines on your network point to it.  You can even use your
samba server as a wins server by including

wins support = yes

in your smb.conf file, then use the IP address of the samba server as
the wins server address on your client machines.  If you decide to use
an NT box as a wins server, then simply replace "wins support = yes"
with "wins server = [ip address of wins server]" in your smb.conf.

> connected to the internet -- DSL at home, ISDN at work.  To clarify, it is
> not that I cannot connect to the share.  I cannot even see the SAMBA server
> in Network Neighborhood or via NET VIEW from my NT box but I can see it just
> fine from the three or four other computers that I checked, including the NT
> PDC.  From the Linux box, SMBCLIENT can see the shares on the NT PDC and the
> Win95/98 boxes too.  i.e., everybody but me is working! :-(

The existing machines on the network are visible because their names
have been propagated via broadcast.  Name resolution via network
broadcast is a bit shaky at times, so I personally recommend using WINS.



Kohei