[Samba] XP clients cannot find Samba

[Aaron Kincer]

If you NAT two subnets together, connections to the Samba server from 
the remote subnet will always connect with the same IP--that of the 
interface on your router connecting to the Samba server subnet. I'm 
guessing this is causing a problem. You want to route between subnets, 
not NAT.

Jerod Prothe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've set up Samba 3.0.22 on an Ubuntu box for testing purposes.  Below 
> is my smb.conf file.  The Samba server, ubuntu, is on the other side 
> of a Linksys WRTP54G router, serving NAT to my Windows XP clients on 
> the inside.  I've opened port 139 on the router, set up NetBEUI, 
> placed entries in the clients' hosts & lmhosts files.  For some 
> reason, the clients can logon to the MYWORKGROUP domain, but only on 
> one desktop.  Logging out and attempting to log in on another computer 
> get this message, "The system cannot log you on now because the domain 
> MYWORKGROUP is not available."
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion?  Thanks.
>
> #
> # Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.
> #
> #
> # This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
> # smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
> # here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options most of which
> # are not shown in this example
> #
> # Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash)
> # is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #
> # for commentary and a ; for parts of the config file that you
> # may wish to enable
> #
> # NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command
> # "testparm" to check that you have not made any basic syntactic
> # errors.
> #
>
> #======================= Global Settings =======================
>
> [global]
>
>    workgroup = MYWORKGROUP
>    netbios name = UBUNTU
>    server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
>
>    passdb backend = tdbsam
>    security = user
>    username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
>    name resolve order = wins bcast hosts
>    domain logons = yes
>    preferred master = yes
>    wins support = yes
>
>    # Set CUPS for printing
>    printcap name = CUPS
>    printing = CUPS
>
>    # Default logon
>    logon drive = H:
>    #logon script = scripts/logon.bat
>    logon path = \\ubuntu\profile\%U
>
>    # Useradd scripts
>    add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u
>    delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u
>    add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g
>    delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g
>    add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G %g %u
>    add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false/ -d 
> /var/lib/nobody %u
>    idmap uid = 15000-20000
>    idmap gid = 15000-20000
>
>    # sync smb passwords woth linux passwords
>    passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>    passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n 
> *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
>    passwd chat debug = yes
>    unix password sync = yes
>
>    # set the loglevel
>    log level = 3
>
> [homes]
>    comment = Home
>    valid users = %S
>    read only = no
>    browsable = no
>    writable = yes
>    guest ok = yes
>
> [printers]
>    comment = All Printers
>    path = /var/spool/samba
>    printable = yes
>    guest ok = yes
>    browsable = no
>
> [netlogon]
>    comment = Network Logon Service
>    path = /home/samba/netlogon
>    admin users = Administrator
>    valid users = %U
>    read only = no
>
> [profile]
>    comment = User profiles
>    path = /home/samba/profiles
>    valid users = %U
>    create mode = 0600
>    directory mode = 0700
>    writable = yes
>    browsable = no
>
> [allusers]
>   comment = All Users
>   path = /home/shares/allusers
>   valid users = @users
>   force group = users
>   create mask = 0660
>   directory mask = 0771
>   writable = yes
>