SUMMARY: "could not connect to host - localhost"

[Ron Woodall]

Hi All:

         I think I've finally nailed this one down. Here was the original 
problem:

>         I'm running Mandrake 8.1 (downloaded) and the install went fine. 
> Configuring Samba however is another story. I get the message "could not 
> connect to host - localhost" on the Linux box. I cannot see the network 
> from the Linux system. The Linux system is visable from Win'98SE as are 
> the shares but I cannot access them "password is incorrect".
>
>         This does not appear to be a single problem but a combination of 
> problems so any guidance would be appreciated. I've searched the faq with 
> no results and read the DOCs and a bunch of other stuff and I'm into day 
> 6 of frustration here.

         Needless to say, it took some time to "discover" the problem. I 
use the name and IP address pairs in the lmhosts file and subsequently used 
the IP address for all of the configuration parameters in the smb.conf 
file. I use the local network addressing of 192.168.0.x .

         I appears, to my at any rate, that this version of Samba (smbd and 
nmbd version 2.2.1a) used with the Mandrake Linux 8.1 (downloaded from the 
Mandrake site in ISO format and burned on CDs locally), will not accept IP 
addresses in the valid users = parameter in the smb.conf file. I changed 
all of the share IP addresses to NetBios names and voila, everything worked 
perfectly.

         Christopher suggested that I install Komba2, which I downloaded 
but didn't get to the point of installing. I didn't need it.

         I thank Christopher Adams and Christian Barth for their assistance.

         Ron Woodall

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