[Samba] win98 and domain logins, Can't browse network
Carl Brewer
carl at bl.echidna.id.au
Mon Oct 18 12:37:02 GMT 2004
Hello,
I've just replaced an NT4 server with a NetBSD box running
Samba 3.0.7.
There's 2 win98 boxes on the network, which were logging into
the NT server, so I set up samba as :
[global]
workgroup = BENFAB2
log level = 1
browsable = yes
server string = Samba %v (%h)
security = user
hosts allow = 10.0.0. 127.
load printers = yes
printcap name = /etc/printcap
printing = bsd
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
password level = integer
passdb backend = smbpasswd
interfaces = 10.0.0.1/24
local master = yes
domain master = yes
preferred master = yes
domain logons = yes
logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U
wins support = yes
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes
writable = yes
valid users = %S
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
guest ok = yes
public = yes
writable = no
printable = yes
[print$]
comment = Printer Driver Download Area
path = /home/samba/drivers
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = yes
write list = @staff, root
[groups]
path = /home/samba/groups
writable = yes
valid users = ben,administrator,irene
public = no
create mask = 0765
[netlogon]
path = /home/samba/netlogon
[Profiles]
path = /home/samba/profiles
browsable = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = yes
create mask = 0765
The 2 win98 boxes can log in to the domain (as far as I can tell), they
load their profiles into the profiles directory anyway. They can
both mount the server shares if I do a manual mount of a filesystem,
they can use the printer that's set up on the samba server too.
But they can't browse, if I click on 'browse' in the win98 GUI,
I get errors telling me it can't see the network. This would
be ok, except I need to share a printer on one of the PCs to the
other one, and I'd like it to 'work properly' for aesthetic
reasons.
I don't mind having to rejig the PCs to just use workgroups rather
than domain logins, if that's a 'better' way to do a pretty simple
network. I was trying to reproduce the NT setup on the Sambe
server, but am not idealogically committed to it. Can anyone make a
suggestion for how to go about this? I'm no samba wiz, I've cobbled
the config above from various howtos that seemed pretty close to
what I wanted to achieve, but I've made mistakes, I'm sure!
thanks!
Carl
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