[Samba] help with samba
Joel Hammer
Joel at HammersHome.com
Thu Aug 22 08:07:01 GMT 2002
I am getting rusty on these questions.
But,
Have you walked through the DIAGNOSIS.txt in the samba sources?
How do you resolve names on your network. Is there a DNS set up? Have you
made your samba box a wins server and pointed your clients at it?
Have your tried adding the samba server to the lhmost file of a client?
Keeping the netbios name the same as the DNS name is good.
I used to run tcpdump and look at the interaction on the net to figure these
things out.
Joel
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 10:12:30AM -0400, Christopher Burger wrote:
> I have installed Red Hat Linux and then installed Samba. I about 20
> client pc set up with various versions of windows from 98 to xp. The
> problem I have is this.
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> I can see Linux server called "SERVER" but when I try to access it, it
> tells me it can't find it. I'm sure I have the shares set up correctly.
> If I ping the machine with it's ip number ie PING 192.168.1.254 I get a
> response. However if I ping using the netbios name ie PING SERVER it
> comes back and tells me it cannot find host name SERVER. I believe this
> is why I can not connect to the samba server, and this may be more of a
> windows networking problem than a samba problem. But any help would be
> appreciated.
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> Christopher Burger
>
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