On Friday 12 July 2002 19:57, you wrote: We are using SuSE sles7 and had the same problem. Seems the netmask generated by the install for a ctc is 255.255.255.255, in the samba code it does a check for the netmask and if it is all high values you get the "No local interfaces" message. In our rc.config I changed the ifconfig line to add netmask 255.255.255.224.
Hope that helps. > btw, for older samba clients, a clumsy work around for "use client > driver = yes" is to specify "print admin = (list of users who can't > connect from NT/2000/XP)." > > But since then I've upgraded to the 2.2.5-1 SRPM and now I'm getting the > [2002/07/12 15:16:05, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(239) > create_subnets: No local interfaces ! > [2002/07/12 15:16:05, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(872) > ERROR: Failed when creating subnet lists. Exiting. > errors in my nmbd.log, and nmbd promptly dies. From the linuxvm.org > samba netmask howto link, it talks about modifying the ifup-ctc script > to use a netmask of 255.255.255.255 for ifconfig and 255.255.255.0 for > route add. > > I've also seen references on this list to faking out samba in the > smb.conf by specifying the netmask there... maybe by using the > interfaces option? Which is the prefered method, and what is the > appropriate entry in the smb.conf? > > Thanks, > Daniel
