[Samba] Re: samba not working

[Bruce Faulkner]

Richard, Ralph:

    I'm having this very same problem and have been now for a couple of
months, ever since I purchased Redhat 8.0 Pro and installed it.  I have two
samba boxes on two different networks.  One of them at work and is:
Win2000pro
RedHat Linux 8.0
Samba 2.2.5
the other at home and is:
Win95B
RedHat Linux 8.0
Samba 2.2.8

Both of the computers on both networks are on the inside of the firewall.
On the Win95 system I unplugged the router (firewall) from the hub in case
it had some influence but it didn't help.

I've tried different samba config files, even the one from the Unofficial
Samba Web Site and one from a friend that is successfully running samba.  On
the Unofficial Samba Web Site they have a trouble shooting section.  All of
the tests pass up through the first half of step six.  The second half of
step six does not work and the second half of step seven doesn't work.  The
first half of step seven does work.  I haven't tried any further steps.  I
can connect to and view files on the Win95 computer from the Linux computer.
They don't offer any solutions if any steps in the troubleshooting doesn't
pass.

I hope someone has the answers for both of us.

Bruce Faulkner

----- Original Message -----
From: "richard" <rcoates at bigpond.net.au>
To: "Ralph Bard" <ralph at willowtec.com>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 3:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: samba not working


> don't forget built in Xp firewall?
>
> On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 02:17, Ralph Bard wrote:
> > I'm having exactly the same problem and I've tried from W2K Server as
well
> > as XP Pro. Samba is 2.2.8a on RedHat 8. From the windows side you can
run
> > "nbtstat -A ipaddr" and doing so against the windows machine works. It
comes
> > back with "host not found" when pointed at the linux box but it's
pingable,
> > telnet, ftp etc, everything I've turned on is there. This message is
> > supposed to indicate there is something blocking the port(s) 137-139 but
> > nothing is behind a firewall.
> >
> > I could not find swat and other basic utilities from the RH8 default smb
> > installation, so I downloaded and rebuilt samba. Everything is there,
swat
> > fires up and makes changes properly etc but no change from the windows
side.
> > I'm completely at a loss now - the machine shows up on the browser list
but
> > won't open to show any shares.
> >
> > -Ralph
> >
> >
> > "blaschke" <blaschke at wisd.net> wrote in message
> > news:1050031265.3e9634a117a09 at www.wisd.net...
> > > I have been trying for a while to get samba operational from the
network
> > > neighborhood side of things.
> > >
> > > I can use the command line interface from within my linux box and I
can
> > > access
> > > the shares, but when I try it through network neighborhood, it tells
me
> > > network path not found.
> > >
> > > Any clues?
> > >
> > > I am running redhat linux 7.3 and samba version 2.2.8
> > >
> > > James B.
> > >
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