After spending the last four days trying to get SAMBA running with shares
for win 95 clients, I am appealing to the greater net community. Here's my
situation. I've tried multiple times to try and get SAMBA running, and I
can't get anything to pop up in the win 95 network neighborhood. All tests
I've done using smbclient have all come out fine, indicating I should be
able to mount a share. I had it running under Mandrake 6.0 before, but I
got a new hard drive and reinstalled and now nothing works. I've made all
of the correct entries in the /etc/hosts, /etc/lmhosts, and /etc/smb.conf
files for a basic share, but still to no avail. I've tried on multiple win
95 clients with different IP addresses and still nothing. I use both SWAT
and a text editor to edit the files and testparm to check and make sure
they are valid. Does anyone have any idea of what I can do to get a basic
server up and running. I basically want to share a network drive with win
95 clients. Is there a possibility that a mistake in one of my basic IP
config files would affect SAMBA in such a manner while leaving the rest of
the main internet connectivity (ftp, http, etc.) usable? Any and all help
is appreciated.
Jason Peterson
