NFS Windows/Linux

Peter Breton pbreton at cs.umb.edu
Mon Mar 3 20:51:49 EST 1997


On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, John Chambers wrote:

> | 
> | I have to second the recommendation to investigate SAMBA. It works
> | and it's free. My Windows95 machine has access to all of the disks
> | and the printer on my Linux box. It does this well, on it's own terms,
> | and all of the stuff to make the Win95 end work came in the Win95 box.
> 
> Lucky you.  I've had samba installed here for  some  months,  and  the
> tests  within  the  linux box all seem to say that everything is fine,
> and smbd is sitting there eagerly awaiting requests.   But  none  ever
> come  in.  The reason seems to be that the W95 box that we want to use
> it with simply insists that its "network neighborhood" is empty.

You did run the SMB name daemon (nmbd) didn't you? Not running it will
produce exactly the symptoms you mention....
 
				Peter

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