I had similar problems and after much hair pulling realised that the problem was simply my firewall settings.
The easy way to check is to disable the firewall and try again. Rob -----Original Message----- From: Paul Parkyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, 8 June 2002 11:57 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Samba Problems Hello List, I am having some difficulty getting Samba configured, the main problem is when I try to access a share on the Samba server from a windows box. Network neighborhood shows the samba server but always comes up with network problem when I try to access the server. I can ping the Linux PC from windows and vice a versa. testparm on smb.conf file shows OK. I can run smbclient on the Linux box and connect to a windows box and transfer files ok. I have smb.conf set to use encrypted passwords and have run the mksmbpasswd.sh utility on the passwd file. When I run nmblookup -L samba_server then I get an error message saying it can't find an exceptions.tdb file. The file doesn't exist in the directory the path is pointing to. I have checked the shares listed in smb.conf many times to ensure they are correct. I am not using dns so have set the resolve order to[ lmhosts hosts wins bcast] I have set up these files to include all the windows PC's This is a new install of RH7.3 I have another Linux PC running RH6,0 and I have no problems with Samba and I have virtually copied the smb.conf file over to the RH7.3 PC. any help most appreciated. Regards Paul Parkyn
