I did a bit more checking on the SMB problems that I have been reporting. Here is some additional information. Note that in all cases whenever I changed a configuration I rebooted the machine to be sure that nothing weird might be going on.
Buchan Milne suggested turning off any hosts allow statement in smb.conf. I did so and it has no effect. Brook Humphrey suggested turning off shorewall. I did so and it has no effect. Brook also suggested checking on the security level. I use standard and never touched it from the time of install. I did however discover something by accident. In one of these tests I happened to try accessing linux files from WinXP and went away from the machine. I discovered that it was able to find them after what appeared to be a very substantial amount of time. Testing it out under various scenarios gives the following information. I can use files from the linux partition but it takes a full five minutes (yes that's right five minutes) for windows explorer to display them. It just hangs there for all that time and then the files appear. This is obviously unacceptable. Samba in the past always would function in just a few seconds but, for whatever reason, this share, as opposed to another share, cannot be found for all this time. Further, shut down the machine and you ge the error message that the smb process was killed and thus can't be shut down. At this point the only thing I can suggest is that something in the security settings may be doing this. I use the ones set by default on install but maybe that is where the problem lies. Bob -- **************************************************************** Robert J. Rossana E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics, 2074 F/AB Wayne State University, Detroit MI 48202 Tel.: (313) 577-3760 Fax: (313) 577-0149 Web Page: www.econ.wayne.edu/~rossana ****************************************************************
