[Samba] Problem when running samba on a network segment other than that of the clients

Matthew Easton matthew at sublunar.com
Sat Aug 14 04:11:27 GMT 2004


On Friday 13 August 2004 17:20, liquid wrote:

> If i connect to the server using //66.11.xxx.xxx/storage it works.  On the
> other hand, windows still can't see the samba server as part of the
> workgroup.  I've had someone else double check all the trivial stuff like
> workgroup name etc...
>
> Is there a setting I've overlooked perhaps that's not allowing the windows
> machines to see the server?

 Although I believe a unix server doing smb is more secure than a windows box, 
I don't think I would put it on the public internet.  

So you've checked that wins traffic can go in both directions across the 
router?

Perhaps you need  an entry in hosts and/or lmhosts on your client machines 
that point to the 66.11.xxx.xxx server.  On a windows box the lmhosts file 
contains its own documentation.


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