[Samba] Need help seeing Samba Server from WinXP

Gerald W. Parker jerryparker at starband.net
Sat Oct 25 20:29:23 GMT 2003


I have literally beat my brains out trying to get my XP machine to talk
to my samba server on my linux machine.  I was hoping you could offer
some advice.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

MY SETUP:

XP machine:
        Hostname - winxp
	2 ethernet cards - one going to my starband satellite modem
                           one going to my linux machine
        IP address - 192.168.0.1 (the one connected to linux machine)
        

Redhat linux 9.0 machine:
        Hostname - redhat
        one ethernet card connected to my XP machine.
        IP address - 192.168.0.252

MY PROBLEM:

I believe I have a name resolution and possibly a broadcast address
problem.  The samba server (version 2.2.7a) is running on Redhat Linux
9.0.  I can successfully connect to the XP machine and copy files from
the XP machine to my Linux machine.  But I cannot access my linux box
from my XP machine (The samba server shows up in the browse list on
winxp).

RELATED INFO:

 - I can successfully surf the net from my linux machine
 - I can ping from redhat to winxp and from winxp to redhat.
   (initially I could only ping from winxp to redhat by using the ip.  I
   added redhat to the lmhosts file on the winxp machine)
 - from redhat
/sbin/ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:41:22:87:2F
          inet addr:192.168.0.252  Bcast:192.168.0.255 
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3787 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:2186 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4363
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:701638 (685.1 Kb)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4000

 - from winxp
     C:\Documents and Settings\Jerry Parker>ipconfig /all

     Windows IP Configuration

        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : winxp
        Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :
        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

     Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Linksys LNE100TX Fast
     Ethernet Adapter(LNE100TX v4)
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-04-5A-63-1D-1F
        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
        Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 148.64.144.111
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.192.0
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 148.64.128.1
        DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 148.64.128.1
        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 148.78.249.200
                                            148.78.249.201
        Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, October 25, 2003
        3:38:50 PM
        Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, October 25, 2003
        4:08:50 PM

     Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NETGEAR FA311 Fast Ethernet
     Adapter
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-09-5B-09-77-4B
        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :


 - from redhat:
     nmblookup -B 192.168.0.255 redhat
     querying redhat on 192.168.0.255
     name_query failed to find name redhat

     nmblookup -B 192.168.0.255 winxp
     querying winxp on 192.168.0.255
     148.64.144.111 winxp<00>
     192.168.0.1 winxp<00>

I don't know how to fix this.  

Thanks,

Jerry Parker
     






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