[Samba] Can't access Samba public directory from MS Windows

[Joel Hammer]

The best advice is to walk through DIAGNOSIS.txt.
To find it, 
locate DIAGNOSIS.txt
This sounds like name resolution isn't working or you have a firewall
problem.

Joel


On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:18:51PM -0500, Katherine Chan wrote:
> 
> My Linux XP (hostname "isat", IP 192.168.1.8) is in the same workgroup
> as my Microsoft PC running Windows 2003 (IP 192.168.1.7).
> On my Linux host, I have a [public] section in the smb.conf file, as shown
> at the end of this message.
> 
> When I typed the command
>    smbclient '\\isat\public'
> the following message was displayed:
> added interface ip=192.168.1.8 bcast=192.168.1.15 nmask=255.255.255.240
> password:
> 
> I typed in the password for the owner of directory /home/public.
> The following text was displayed:
> Domain=[WORKGROUP] Os=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.7a]
> Smb:\>
> 
> This shows that I can connect to a file service.
> 
> I then go to the DOS command screen on my Windows PC and
> typed the following to map network drive g: to directory /home/public on my Linux XP
>    net use g: \\isat\public
> 
> The following error message was displayed:
> System error 53 has occurred
> The network path was not found
> 
> I also tried the following:
> 
> >From the Windows PC
> My Network Places --> Computers Near Me
> 
> I can see "isat" under the "Name" column with 
> comment "Samba server"
> 
> But when I clicked on entry "isat", the following error message
> was displayed:
> \\isat is not accessible
> The Network path was not found
> I can ping the Linux IP 192.168.1.8 from my Windows PC 
> and I can also ping my Windows PC IP 192.168.1.7 from the Linux XP
> but I cannot ping the Linux hostname "isat" from the Windows PC.
> 
> My /home/public directory on the Linux XP has mode 0777 (rwxrwxrwx).
> Do you know what could be causing this problem?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Katherine
> 
> 
> =====================================================
> Some of the relevant lines in my smb.conf file are shown below:
> 
> [global]
> workgroup = WORKGROUP
> hosts allow = 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.240  127.
> security = user
>   log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>   max log size = 0
>   dns proxy = no
> 
> [homes]
>   comment = Home Directories
>   browseable = no
>   writable = yes
>   valid users = %S
>   create mode = 0664
>   directory mode = 0775
> 
> [public]
>   path = /home/public
>   public = yes
>   only guest = yes
>   writable = yes
> printable = no
> 
> 
> 
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