Well I just upgraded to Mandrake 7.0 at work and the samba is working just fine.
98/95/NT all connect
no problem.
Mike
webmedic wrote:
> This may sound kind of stupid but I found windows 2000 at least had to be
> rebooted every time I made a change, but after working away at it all finally
> started to come together.
Did you refresh your Network Neighborhood after the changes? A simple test is to
change the
"server string" in the smb.conf file, restart the smbd and nmbd proc's, refresh your
Network
Neiborhood and single click the Samba Server. If it picks up the new server string you
shouldn't
need to reboot.
Mike
>
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> MH > Russ & Rich,
> MH >
> MH > Thanks for your prompt reply. Smbd and nmbd are running, I use the
> MH > /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart after I make changes to the smb.conf file. and
> MH > yes I have added the users to the smbpasswd file, enabled
> MH > PlainTextPassword on the windoze box. Like I said I can see the
> MH > shares, (so I know smbd and nmbd are running) but cannot connect. I
> MH > have been using samba for about a year and a half, I thought I ran into
> MH > most of the problems one could face, NOT! I turned the log files up to "9",
> MH > the only thing that looks out of the ordinary is this.
> MH > *******************************************************
> MH > [2000/02/13 10:52:21, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_data(474)
> MH > read_socket_data: recv failure for 4. Error = Broken pipe
> MH > [2000/02/13 10:52:40, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_data(474)
> MH > read_socket_data: recv failure for 4. Error = Broken pipe
> MH > [2000/02/13 10:54:40, 1] smbd/server.c:main(643)
> MH > smbd version 2.0.6 started.
> MH > Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998
> MH > *******************************************************
> MH > I'm not exactly sure what it is but it don't look good. That's why I believe
> MH >
> MH > thier may be a service that I need for samba that's not running .
> MH > After not beeing able to connect I retrived my (previously working)
> MH > smb.conf file from my ever prudent backup of /etc "before the upgrade to
> MH > 7.0" that still doesn't work. Which again may point to something other
> MH > than samba itself.
> MH >
> MH > Thanks again
> MH >
> MH > Mike
> MH >
> MH > Russ Johnson wrote:
> MH >
> MH > > Is smbd and nmbd running?
> MH > >
> MH > > Type 'ps ax | grep [sn]mbd'.
> MH > >
> MH > > If you don't get back either of them, try this:
> MH > >
> MH > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
> MH > >
> MH > > (smb might be 'samba')
> MH > >
> MH > > You should see smb and nmb start. Once they do, try connecting with the
> MH > > Windows machine again.
> MH > >
> MH > > As long as that works, you'll need to set it up to start automatically. Do
> MH > > this in Linuxconf.
> MH > >
> MH > > Russ
> MH > >
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