Need help with samba

[Phil Savoie]

Hi Kory ,

Looking quickly at your file, I see no trailing dot on your host allow line 
for the 199 address.  I would add the trailing dot and restart samba.

Phil

On Saturday 15 September 2001 18:47, Kory Hamzeh wrote:
> I'm running samba 2.0.8 under FreeBSD RELEASE-4.3 and I seem to have
> problems with win98 clients. The machine shows up in the network
> neighborhood, but when I double click on the machine, I get the following
> error: "\\machinename is not accessible. The specified computer did not
> receive your request. Try again later."
>
> I have an entry for the machine in /etc/passwd (tomcat$) and I also used
> smbpasswd to add it to the smb password list.
>
> On the FBSD machine's log.smb I see:
>
> [2001/09/14 20:41:44, 0] lib/access.c:check_access(262)
>   Denied connection from tomcat.avatar.com (199.33.206.20)
> [2001/09/14 20:41:44, 1] smbd/process.c:process_smb(611)
>   Connection denied from 199.33.206.20
>
> testparm does not return any errors.
>
> Running "smbstatus" displays:
>
> Couldn't open status file /var/spool/lock/STATUS..LCK
>
> /var/spool/lock is setup as:
>
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 Sep 15 15:31 lock
>
>
> Here is my basic smb.conf file:
>
> ;==================================
> [global]
>    debug level = 9
>    workgroup = WORKGROUP
>    server string = Samba Server
>    hosts allow = 199.33.206 127.
>    load printers = yes
>    log file = /var/log/log.%m
>    max log size = 50
>    security = user
>    encrypt passwords = yes
>    socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>    dns proxy = no
>
> [homes]
>    comment = Home Directories
>    browseable = no
>    writeable = yes
>
> [printers]
>    comment = All Printers
>    path = /var/spool/samba
>    browseable = no
>    guest ok = no
>    writeable = no
>    printable = yes
>
> # This one is useful for people to share files
> [tmp]
>    comment = Temporary file space
>    path = /tmp
>    read only = no
>    public = yes
> ;==========================================================================
>
> You'll noticed that it is pretty much a stock configuration file. Note that
> the tcp/ip domain of the win98 client and the machine running samba are
> different. Would that cause this error? If not, what else can I check for?
>
> Thanks,
> Kory

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