Samba on Win2000

Roland info at gmm.ch
Wed Dec 12 07:55:02 GMT 2001


Many thanks Joe for your reply. I am able to connect locally now, but 
connecting to my laptop or visa versa does not work still.

Would you be able to give some more hints whats needs to be done to make 
it work?

I allowed myself to include the smb.conf


Thanks very much


Roland Blättler






Joel Hammer wrote:

>This comes from the Recent FAQ doc in textdocs.
>To search these docs:
>while in the textdocs directory:
>grep calling *
>Joel
>
>
>Not listening for calling name
>      ==============================
>     
>     Session request failed (131,129) with myname=HOBBES destname=CALVIN
>     Not listening for calling name
>    
>    If you get this when talking to a Samba box then it means that your
>    global "hosts allow" or "hosts deny" settings are causing the Samba
>    server to refuse the connection.
>   
>   Look carefully at your "hosts allow" and "hosts deny" lines in the
>   global section of smb.conf.
>  
>  It can also be a problem with reverse DNS lookups not functioning
>  correctly, leading to the remote host identity not being able to
>  be confirmed, but that is less likely.
> 
>===============================================================================
>
>
>
>On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 02:46:24PM +0100, Roland wrote:
>
>>Hello all
>>
>>I have been having trouble to connect to my laptop for a while now and I 
>>was advised to upgrade to version 8.1. So I did but the connection still 
>>does not work.
>>
>>I have just checked my share with smbclient  //192.... but received the 
>>following error message.
>>session request to 192 failed (not listening for calling name)
>>
>>What does it mean and how would I be able to fix this?
>>
>>
>>Small problem No 2:
>>Using Win98 I can open a brower window and I either put the IP adress or 
>>the host name to see the default page of my linux box, but with Win2000 
>>it only works with the IP adress. Why is this and how can this be solved.
>>
>>
>>Many thanks for your reply.
>>
>>Roland Blättler
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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[global]
   workgroup = WORKGROUP
   server string = Samba Server %v
   hosts allow = 192.168.1.  127.
   log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
   max log size = 50
   security = user
   encrypt passwords = yes
   smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
   socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
   dns proxy = no
 
[test]
   comment = Test
   path = /home/prt
   ;valid users = tom
   public = no
   writable = yes


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