on 5/6/01 7:53 AM, Bruce Endries at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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]
Thanks for your response. I noticed that bit about the /root/tmp as well
but since my box is somewhat exposed to the net I don't want to do the chmod
777. I'll just hope that someone else out there can help us out. I imagine
it will be a matter of changing where the samba temp directory points but I
don't know where/what that setting is since I've not seen it before. That
was one of the joys of Mandrake; I just plugged it in and it worked (in
7.2). It's still my favorite distro though and you sorta have to expect a
few things to go wrong on major point releases.
Cordially,
Scott Sprunger
