Easy question

Ries van twisk rvt at dds.nl
Mon Sep 17 10:15:03 GMT 2001


Have you tried to put a lmhosts file in the windows directory?
It's properly something with getting browselists to the dailup computer.
a lmhosts file kan solve this.

Ries

Bunny Pfau wrote:
> 
> Okay, I just updated our Samba configuration from
> 1.9.something to 2.2.1a.  THe users in question are
> running Win98.
> 
> This is probably a simple question, but I just don't have
> the experience to know.
> 
> Our problem is that one user used to dial in through
> our company's dial-in setup and run PPP, and then they
> were assigned an IP address on a different subnet (.68).  In
> the past, through Network Neighborhood, she could do
> a "search" for her PC, which is on OUR subnet (.16) and find it
> and access the shared C: drive just  fine.  No changes
> have been made to her PC, just our Samba server here.
> 
> How do I "advertise" or make accessible our .16 subnet PCs to
> the .68 subnet?  Under Samba 1.9 obviously I didn't have to worry
> about this, but Samba 2 is more secure..
> 
> Below is the smb.conf file.  I changed our IP numbers to 999.999
> for privacy reasons..
> 
> # Samba config file created using SWAT
> # from bob (999.999.16.39)
> # Date: 2001/09/05 15:50:48
> 
> # Global parameters
> [global]
>         workgroup = SAMBA2
>         netbios name = BOBSERVER
>         server string = Samba2.2.1_bob
>         username map = /opt/local/samba/lib/users.map
>         log level = 4
>         log file = /opt/local/samba/logs/log.%m
>         os level = 64
>         preferred master = True
>         domain master = True
> #       wins server = 999.999.16.5
>         admin users = root
>         printer admin = root
>         hosts allow = 999.999.16.0/255.255.255.0 999.999.104.0/255.255.255.0
> 999.999.68.0/255.255.255.0 999.999.65.0/255.255.255.0
> 
> [homes]
>         comment = Home Directories
>         read only = No
>         browseable = No
> 
> [printers]
>         comment = All Printers
>         path = /tmp
>         create mask = 0700
>         printable = Yes
>         browseable = No
> 
> [phasord]
>         comment = phasor:/local/d
>         path = /phasor/d
>         valid users = joe bunny
>         read only = No
> 
> [phasord1]
>         comment = phasor:/local/d1
>         path = /phasor/d1
>         valid users = joe bunny
>         read only = No
> 
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