[Samba] Samba Server Problem

[Barry deFreese]

What distro are you running on??

Barry deFreese
Newbie


On Monday 19 August 2002 08:46 am, Nosh5 at aol.com wrote:
> I am trying to set up a samba server however no matter what I try I can not
> seem to browse my shares from a windows machine. I can view the Samba
> server in network neighborhood but if i click it (or do a net view) I just
> recieve an error. On the Samba web site there were some tests to try and
> all of them worked (pinging, browsing shares from the samba server using
> smbclient etc.) right up until it said to do a net view from the windows
> machine. I have tried different settings in my smb.conf and so far nothing
> has worked however this is what it is set to right now:
>
> [global]
>     server string = Samba Server
>     guest account = nobody
>     workgroup = SBS
>     netbios name = SAMBA
>     public = yes
>     browsable = yes
>     domain logons = no
>     null passwords = yes
>     min passwd length = 0
>     password level = 8
>     username level = 8
>     wins server = 192.168.0.1
> ;   interfaces = 192.168.0.199/255.255.0.0
> ;   bind interfaces only = yes
>     dns proxy = no
>     guest ok = yes
>     map to guest = bad user
>     encrypt passwords = no
>     security = user
>     log level = 3
>     local master = no
>     domain master = no
> ;   alternate permissions = yes
>
> [NETLOGON]
>     path = /usr/local/samba/lib/netlogon
>     guest ok = yes
>     readonly = yes
>
>
> [share]
>     comment = Share Directory
>     path = /share
>     read only = no
>     public = yes
>     browsable = yes
>
>
> and BTW the following command:
> nmblookup -B 192.168.255.255 samba returns:
> name_query failed to find name samba
>
> my net mask is 255.255.0.0 and my samba server name is samba
>
> Thanks,
> Nathan