[Samba] Trouble Connecting to Server

[Karl Banasky]

Sorry looked at the original email and this seemed to be in it.
How are your firewall setting? Also I thought you would need to have it 
this way :
interfaces = 192.168.2.2/24 192.168.3.1/24
Anyways this is more then I have done.
Karl-

Karl Banasky wrote:
> Did you put the WINS ipaddress in the windows client? if it don't no 
> where to get the info I have found it to get the info. There is a way to 
> put that in the DHCP Server setting, that is beyond me.
> Also you can do a locate tdb files and do a tdbdump on the wins info.
> Do you have user accounts, like any setup?
> Also do you have "host allow = " and "host deny = " along with  the 
> "interfaces =" setup correctly?
> Some things to look at.
> Karl
> 
> 
> Craig White wrote:
>> On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 22:24 -0600, Eric Hines wrote:
>>> At 01/02/06 21:37, Adam Nielsen wrote:
>>>>> I'm having trouble connecting to my Samba server.  The immediate
>>>>> symptom is that I cannot see my Samba server in my Windows Network
>>>>> Neighborhood, and so I cannot connect to it to check my share
>>>>> connections.
>> ----
>> try 'wins support = yes' in smb.conf
>> ----
>>>> You can still go Start | Run \\ip.address to connect to a 'hidden'
>>>> Samba server.
>>> I get a "network path not found" error.  However, when I do the same 
>>> thing for each of the two subnets, I get invited to log in (my Samba 
>>> error, I think--I may have not yet put anything into my tdbsam.  I'm 
>>> still trying to get the network itself to work.)
>>>
>>>>> I can ping all by hostname, as well as by FQDN; although it appeared
>>>>> that I could not ping sserver by hostname only until I added sserver
>>>>> and its FQDN to the PC's host file (which it reads as though it were
>>>>> an lmhosts file).  I say "it appeared" because it looked like the
>>>>> forward and reverse look up files for sserver appeared in the PC's
>>>>> resolver cache before I made this addition, but I got too fast with a
>>>>> ping test and contaminated that datum.
>>>> It sounds like "nmbd" isn't running, or more likely, it's only running
>>>> on one subnet.  There are all sorts of issues using NetBIOS names
>>>> across different subnets, but Google will tell you all about that.
>>> I do have only one instance of nmbd running, and two of smbd.  How do 
>>> I get another nmbd instance to run?
>> ----
>> not needed
>> ----
>>>
>>>> If running \\samba.ip on a Windows box works, then this is definitely
>>>> the problem.
>>> Additional data, from an error log I have named.conf generating, 
>>> keeping in mind that I have dynamic dns turned on.  I'm getting 
>>> messages to the effect that my test1 dot biz dot hosts dot jnl file 
>>> (test1 dot biz dot hosts is the forward lookup file that, among other 
>>> things, defines the points of contact for my two subnets) cannot be 
>>> created due to a permission denied error.  My test1 dot biz dot hosts 
>>> forward lookup table lives in /var/lib/named/master directory, with 
>>> permissions rw-r--r--, and it's owned by root:root.  Further, even 
>>> though I have ddns running, this test1 dot biz dot hosts file remains 
>>> unchanged from the day I created it--not a thing has been added to 
>>> it.  Should there have been by now, or am I exposing my ignorance 
>>> here?  Further, my named and dhcpd are running in separate chroot 
>>> jails.  Is this causing problems with updating this file--or any 
>>> other of my forward lookup files?
>> ----
>> on most systems, named runs as user named and thus cannot make changes
>> to files owned by root:root and cannot create journal files in folders
>> unless owned by named:named and chmod 775
>> ----
>>> Finally, what do the error messages mean, and what do I need to do to 
>>> correct that?
>> ----
>> probably follow some of the best documentation available and resist the
>> temptation to shortcut it.
>>
>> http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-ByExample/
>>
>> this might be just the chapter you are looking for...
>> http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-ByExample/Big500users.html
>>
>> Craig
>>