[Samba] Problems connecting to Samba through windows
Joel Hammer
Joel at HammersHome.com
Mon Nov 4 04:23:00 GMT 2002
Please provide more detail.
What is the error message you are getting?
Which machine are you running the command on? Which machine are you trying
to find with nmblookup?
Forget swat. If you mention it once more I'll hang up.
What do you see with:
ps ax | grep mbd | grep -v grep
at the linux server?
Joel
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:29:05PM +1000, Justin Edwards wrote:
> Test 5 of the diagnostics.txt failed. SWAT is telling me that nmbd is
> running though.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Hammer" <Joel at HammersHome.com>
> To: "Justin" <justin at cview.com.au>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 12:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Problems connecting to Samba through windows
>
>
> > Have you walked through DIAGNOSIS.txt in the docs/text section with the
> > samba sources.
> > Is samba running on the linux box?
> > Joel
> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:16:53PM +1000, Justin wrote:
> > > I just started using Linux a couple of weeks ago and have been trying to
> setup samba.
> > > I have a couple of text books I have been following which have helped me
> be able to run the
> > > smbclient from Linux to view both the shares on my Linux and xp machine.
> > >
> > > The problem is that I can not access the Linux files from my xp machine.
> I can ping the machine
> > > without a problem and can also view the machine through network
> neighbourhood. However when I
> > > double click the Linux machine in network neighbourhood I receive the
> error:
> > >
> > > \\linux is not accessible. you might not have permissions to use this
> network resource.
> > > No service is operating at the destination network endpoint on the
> remote system.
> > >
> > > I have gone through all the documentation I can find but nothing seems
> to help. Could someone please advise me on what I am doing wrong or not
> doing at all. I am still learning so the more explanatory the better.
> > >
> > > I look forward to your response
> > > Justin
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