Hello, I've had samba up and running for awhile, but over the weekend we put in a firewall and changed our local networks. Now, I'm trying to get samba up and running again, in a linux virtual machine under VM. I've made what I thought were the required changes to my smb.conf file.
I'm running through the tests in the "Diagnosing Your Samba Server" contributed by Andrew Tridgell, and I'm running into an error at test 3 when I try to run the smbclient from my linux system. Here's my input and the error message: [root@linuxtst /root]# /usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient -L vmtest added interface ip=192.168.0.7 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 wins_srv_died(): WINS server 10.66.0.80 appears to be down. Connection to vmtest failed My linux virtual machine IP address is 192.168.0.7. The wins server I'm trying to use is at 10.66.0.80. Here's the contents of my smb.conf file: [global] workgroup = VMSAMBA security = user encrypt passwords = yes guest account = guest wins server = 10.66.0.80 local master = yes os level = 01 domain master = yes preferred master = yes hosts allow = 192.168. 10.66. 127. interfaces = eth0 max log size = 50 invalid users = root bin daemon adm sync shutdown halt mail news uucp operator [tmp] path=/tmp writeable=yes ---------------- end of smb.conf ----------------------------------------------- I have run the testparm program and it didn't complain about my smb.conf file. I also successfully executed test 2 where I could ping my linux guest from my PC, and ping my PC from linux. I also can ping the WINS server at 10.66.0.80 from my linux guest. Can someone see the error of my ways? I should also try you that our WINS server was upgraded from NT to Windows 2000 during the firewall implementation. Thanks for your help. Mike Spaniol Blackwell North America, Inc. 6024 SW Jean Rd., Bldg. G Lake Oswego, OR 97035 (503) 684-1140 Ext. 1231
