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I'm having a huge problem trying to get samba to work. I want to be able to put my Redhat 7.3 box onto my Windows workgroup. My linux box can see my windows pcs fine, but not the other way around. My linux box appears in Network Neighborhood in windows, but everytime I click on it, I get an error saying The Network Path Was Not Found. If I run smbclient from my linux box, it CAN log in to itself fine. Any ideas where I could get really detailed samba help for a newbie? 
Also, if anyone here was able to get it to work, can you please post your smb.conf file? Thanx!
Also, if anyone here was able to get it to work, can you please post your smb.conf file? Thanx! Dani the Computer Science Gal
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mmMMMM.. you want help with samba? well who am i to dissapoint.. just remember.. *evil grin* RTFM:
http://www.jsanten.demon.nl/linux.html#samba
and
http://www-jerry.oit.duke.edu/linux/bluedevil/HOWTO/simple_simon_samba_howto.html
and
http://faqchest.dynhost.com/linux/samba-l/
and finally a recent addition:
ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/customers/samba/SAMBA_Troubleshooting.rtf
http://www.jsanten.demon.nl/linux.html#samba
and
http://www-jerry.oit.duke.edu/linux/bluedevil/HOWTO/simple_simon_samba_howto.html
and
http://faqchest.dynhost.com/linux/samba-l/
and finally a recent addition:
ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/customers/samba/SAMBA_Troubleshooting.rtf
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Very cool! I will take a look at these later tonight and with hope and prayer maybe I'll finally be able to get samba working.
Until now I've been confined to the man pages and to linuxnewbie.org - time to broaden my horizons!
Until now I've been confined to the man pages and to linuxnewbie.org - time to broaden my horizons!
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so whats the story cheif.. get it working yet?
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It's 4:40 am and I just got home !!
Whew what a day !!
I was all over today, and haven't had a chance to work on anything on my linux box.
I'll have a looksie tomorrow ... (my eyes are half shut right now).
Whew what a day !!
I was all over today, and haven't had a chance to work on anything on my linux box.
I'll have a looksie tomorrow ... (my eyes are half shut right now).
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Originally Posted by TechTalkGal
It's 4:40 am and I just got home !!
Whew what a day !!
I was all over today, and haven't had a chance to work on anything on my linux box.
I'll have a looksie tomorrow ... (my eyes are half shut right now).
that sounds like a personal problem to me.. ;D don't you know when it comes to linux you're suppose to take one for the team and do whatever it takes??
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I looked over all the sites you sent me to and still no go. My problem is in the "hosts allow" parameter and in the hosts and lmhosts files. Every samba configuration I see shows that I need to specify in these files the IP of localhost (the 192.168.0.x one) and the IPs and NetBIOS names of all the other PCs on the network I want to be able to connect to/from. My problem is that I have a WinXP box directly connected to a cable modem whose IP is 192.168.0.1. This machine uses dhcp to randomly assign an IP to all my other boxes. Take my laptop, for example - it is constantly being moved around from my school's network to my home network - and each time it gets plugged into my hub, it comes back with a different IP!
Do I not need to do anything about these files afterall? Is all this worrying over some stupid lil thing?
If I run "smbclient localhost" from my linux box, I can access my shares! My linux box appears in network neighborhood on my windows machines, but upon clicking it, it says that the computer could not be found on the network or something.
More help please?
Do I not need to do anything about these files afterall? Is all this worrying over some stupid lil thing?
If I run "smbclient localhost" from my linux box, I can access my shares! My linux box appears in network neighborhood on my windows machines, but upon clicking it, it says that the computer could not be found on the network or something.
More help please?
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Hmm... reminds me of something similar that happens in my network (but it's wireless so it might not help much, i believe i have static ip's but i'm 2 lazy 2 check wat i set it 4). Just sayin cause it might help:
Sometimes, when i put my laptop on standby and i later turn it on. I try to view my laptops shared files from my desktop and it says something like not detected. And on my laptop i can't access anything from my desktop because it says not connected to network. I've realized the way 2 fix this is to either restart (old way, found out how 2 make it work wo restartin) or on the bottom right there's a small lil comp icon. All i do is just double click on it and it opens up a window showing me all da computers where i have a networked drive from. I just doubble click the alphaprime (desktop network name) and play around with it, and eventually it connected.
Doubt this will help, but can inspire ya
Sometimes, when i put my laptop on standby and i later turn it on. I try to view my laptops shared files from my desktop and it says something like not detected. And on my laptop i can't access anything from my desktop because it says not connected to network. I've realized the way 2 fix this is to either restart (old way, found out how 2 make it work wo restartin) or on the bottom right there's a small lil comp icon. All i do is just double click on it and it opens up a window showing me all da computers where i have a networked drive from. I just doubble click the alphaprime (desktop network name) and play around with it, and eventually it connected.
Doubt this will help, but can inspire ya
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Originally Posted by cscgal
I looked over all the sites you sent me to and still no go. My problem is in the "hosts allow" parameter and in the hosts and lmhosts files. Every samba configuration I see shows that I need to specify in these files the IP of localhost (the 192.168.0.x one) and the IPs and NetBIOS names of all the other PCs on the network I want to be able to connect to/from. My problem is that I have a WinXP box directly connected to a cable modem whose IP is 192.168.0.1. This machine uses dhcp to randomly assign an IP to all my other boxes. Take my laptop, for example - it is constantly being moved around from my school's network to my home network - and each time it gets plugged into my hub, it comes back with a different IP!
Do I not need to do anything about these files afterall? Is all this worrying over some stupid lil thing?
If I run "smbclient localhost" from my linux box, I can access my shares! My linux box appears in network neighborhood on my windows machines, but upon clicking it, it says that the computer could not be found on the network or something.
More help please?
well.. as far as the hosts allow, there are a copule of options you can do, for one, the dhcp client on your xp box, you should be able to specify certain MAC addresses to get certain ip's.. do this for your linux machine, then every time it hits the network, it gets the same ip.. as for the rest of the machine, have you thought about just having it allow connections from 192.168.*.*? that should allow any computer to connect.. and if for some reason you have to put a hostname in, just use a regular expresion like [a-zA-Z0-9] which should allow any alphanumeric hostname.. of course.. i could be wrong.. as i dont use samba.. i prefer ssh2 and ftp when i need to..
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