Samba questions

[agabriel at coe.neu.edu (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

Hello,
	Just for kicks did you try putting the smb.conf file for the alpha
on to SuSE and tailor it for SuSE a bit and let it go.  SuSE & Redhat, if
your running a 2.2 kernel, should have a Samba >= 2.0. Does nmblookup
work?

hmmm,
Anthony

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> I have my SuSE Linux system now set up with a reasonable smb.conf file,
> but I am having a couple of problems with one of the Windoz systems:
> First, my network looks like this:
> 192.168.0.1 SuSE Linux - name SuSE
> 192.168.0.2 Red Hat 5.2 Alpha Linux name alpha
> 192.168.0.3 Windows 95 (OSR2) name windoz
> 192.168.0.4 Windows98 (Not yet on network until I fish the cable and get
> the connectors on right).
> 
> 
> Both the SuSE system and the Windoz system have cable modems on the other
> interfaces. (The reason for 2 cable modems is that my wife wants a stable
> system, and I'm always messing with my systems. I know I would be better
> off with a dedicated firewall, and I might use the Alpha for that and
> cancel wife's account). I have set up the workgroup names correctly on all
> 3 systems.
> 
> I can do smbclient -L alpha from the SuSE and smbclient -L SuSE from the
> Alpha. smbclient reports printers and shares correctly. It shows the work
> group name correctly. 
> 
> When I do smbclient -L windoz on either system, it fails. 
> I have a /etc/lmhosts file as well as /etc/hosts. All systems are pingable
> from eachother. 
> 
> On the Windows system, when I check network neighborhood, it sees itself
> and the alpha, but not the SuSE. The ip addresses are correct in the
> c:\windows\lmhosts file. 
> 
> I have the allow hosts = localhost, 192.168.0.
> I have also set up the interfaces = 192.168.1 (on the SuSE) since it has 2
> interfaces. The netmasks default to 255.255.255.0.
> 
> just to summarize:
> Alpha can see SuSE and Windoz
> Windoz can only see Alpha, not SuSE
> SuSE can only see Alpha. 
> The /etc/lmhosts file on all 3 systems are cloned. I suspect that I
> probably forgot to set one of the parameters in smb.conf. (BTW: smbd and
> nmbd are run at boot time, not by inetd. Also, I have read the Samba
> howto as well as much of the smb.conf(5) man page. 
> 
> Tonight I thought I might try explicitly listing each host in the allow
> hosts and see if that works. 
> 
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Boston Linux and Unix
> http://www.blu.org
> 
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