Cannot see share from Network Neighbourhood
Vardy-Bragg Family
vardybragg at optusnet.com.au
Mon Oct 1 04:49:03 GMT 2001
Dear Samba,
Am getting desperate.
Have upgraded from RedHat 6.2 to 7.1 which comes with Samba 2.0.7.
Samba worked fine with RedHat 6.2 but is now a very reluctant starter - in fact it
refuses to go!!
I can see the Linux box name in the Network Neighbourhood window but when I
click it I get the nessage that the "The computer or share name could not be
found..."
I have tried numerous combinations of smb.conf but settled on the following as a
simple "should go" example:-
[global]
work group = VB.ORG
netbios name = P133
log file = /var/log/samba-log%m
lock directory = /var/lock/samba
share modes = yes
[public]
comment = Some public
path = /home/public <-- a real public directory with rwx 777
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
Have also tried simple [homes] and they don't work.
Have set EnablePlainTextPassword on the Win 98 box plus all other settings
which used to work fine with my RedHat 6.2 installation.
Have checked that the samba daemons are working via the "ps" command.
Have checked that the smb.conf file is being re-read and interpreted each time I
run smb restart.
Have run testparm and no problems.
Have pinged from the Linux box to the Win Box and vice versa and both respond to
each other.
Have searched the internet high and low and not found a solution, although I have
found a number of references to similar problems (without solutions).
So can you offer a suggestion apart from giving up and forgetting about Windows
and Linux networking?
Regards
Chris Bragg (50s + old time UNIX user who would like to rediscover his youth)
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