thanks for both replies, the issue seems to be that one or both of samba and webmin aren't starting properly, and that there seems to be (have been?) some inconsistency - in that it looks like webmin failed to start last boot (though is set, within webmin itself, to start on boot), but this time started ok (this machine just crashed for some reason!).
a restart of both webmin and samba results in the shares being available. where is the best place, or what is the best method, to ensure that the machine is set to start both these services each time it boots? Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:38:04 +1200 > Roger Searle wrote: > > >> Last week I installed webmin, and created some shares that were viewable >> on the network from a windows machine. Coming back today I find that >> the shares are not available to the windows machine and I can't start >> webmin via http://localhost:10000/samba/ or http://localhost:10000/ as I >> could last week. >> >> I have started samba via "/etc/init.d/smb start". The smbd and nmbd >> network services do not appear to be started (from looking in Network >> Services Configuration). Any suggestions welcome... >> > > ps ax|grep smb > ps ax|grep nmb > > >> NINE-SuSE:~ # smbclient -L localhost >> Password: >> Domain=[NINE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.20-4-SUSE] >> >> Sharename Type Comment >> --------- ---- ------- >> homes Disk Home Directories >> profiles Disk Network Profiles Service >> users Disk All users >> groups Disk All groups >> print$ Disk Printer Drivers >> Z Disk >> Y Disk >> G Disk >> IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Nine) >> ADMIN$ IPC IPC Service (Nine) >> Domain=[NINE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.20-4-SUSE] >> >> Server Comment >> --------- ------- >> >> Workgroup Master >> --------- ------- >> WORKGROUP >> > > > This seems to indicate that samba is indeed runnning, or you wouldn't > get any listing of sharenames on localhost. > > Firewall? > > If you have another linux box try > > nmap 192.168.1.1 > > or whatever the address of the samba server is. I am sure there is a > windows equivalent of nmap, but I dunno what it is. > >
