I have been struggling with the exact same problem. I got it to work
just yesterday. I looked in /var/log/samba/XXXXX.log (XXXXX) being
the netbios name for the machine that was trying to connect) and
found an err pertaining to trying to access /root/tmp. So I changed
permissions on the /root and /tmp directorits to 777. Then it worked.
I have no idea on what this might do to any security concerns, but
for this box I don't care about security as it is behind my firewall
and this is just a home network with me as pretty much the sole
user.
Hope this helps, and somebody with some real knowledge can tell
us what's wrong under 8.0...
Bruce
> I've got a Mandrake 8.0 box set up and I'm trying to access it from a
> Windows 2000 box SP1 box (not I've also tried from Windows 98 SE). I've set
> the Samba box up as a member of the Mdkgroup workgroup and set up the
> Win2000 box as the same. When I double click on Computers near me in My
> Network places I get the following error - Mdkgroup is not accessible. The
> server is not configured for transactions - and then it won't go any
> further.
>
> As some background, I had samba working on this box just fine back when it
> had Mandrake 7.2. I've tried this with the password encryption
> enabled/disabled and it made no difference. I had the same problem with
> Mandrake 8.0 before I upgraded Samba to 2.0.8 and that is initially why I
> upgraded Samba since I thought it might fix this problem. I do have the
> user account set up for this particular samba user (seperate from the linux
> account but with the same password). I've tried stopping and restart Samba,
> rebooting the linux box and the Windows box but so far nothing has made any
> difference.
>
> I can succussfully ping the linux box but if I do a start - run and then
> enter \\odin it gives me this error - \\odin The network name cannot be
> found.
>
> As far as I know there wasn't anything else I had to do in Mandrake 7.2 to
> get this working but maybe I'm forgetting something. Has anyone else
> experienced this since upgrading to Mandrake 8.0 and or Samba 2.0.8? And,
> more importantly, know of a fix?
>
> Thank you,
> Scott Sprunger
>
>
Bruce Endries
Bruce Endries Consulting
(607) 433-2677
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
