On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 00:53, Lee Wiggers wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:32:29 -0400
> Dan Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 17 August 2004 09:51 am, Stephen K�hn wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 15:42, Dan Gordon wrote:
> > > > Hello all,
> > > > Well it has taken me about a year to get samba to the point
> > > > where two boxes can see each others shares.  The problem is on
> > > > box a i can see the share on box b but cant mount it the error
> > > > is bad password.  on box b i can see the share locally but
> > > > cant mount it error is bad password.
> > > >
> > > > On box b i can see the share on box a and can mount it.  Also
> > > > can mount the share locally.  Both boxes have been set up
> > > > exacly the same and am using samba 3.0.2a on both boxes.  Have
> > > > tried linneighbourhood,  smb4k (which dont work at all) and
> > > > gnome samba browser with the same results. The only diferences
> > > > between these two boxes is one has mandrake 10 CE and the
> > > > other has mandrake 10 official.
> > > >
> > > > any ideas would be apreaciated.
> > > >
> > > > Oh and if you wondering why it took me a year to get this
> > > > far....well i could not have cared less untill today LOL.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Dan Gordon
> > >
> > > Dunno why you're having such major probs with Samba; and sorry
> > > to say, have you RTFM? I can get Samba up and running in
> > > literally no time at all; either as a normal Windows sharing
> > > system or as a domain controller; using SWAT through Webmin and
> > > it's interface, or either by manually editing the
> > > /etc/samba/smb.conf - it truly isn't all that hard especially if
> > > you use SWAT.
> > >
> > > Why not post the /etc/samba/smb.conf and let someone looksee?
> > >
> > > (BTW, the Samba mailing list is a great place to bounce things
> > > around as well)
> > 
> > Found the problem,  it seems that I had to log into kde as root go
> > into kcontrol and set the netbios name in the samba configuration
> > section. Now even smb4k works.
> > I will have a look at the samba mailing list though as I now have
> > to get a XP box to connect.
> > 
> > Thanks for the help guys.
> > -- 
> > Tue Aug 17 10:27:14 EDT 2004
> >  10:27:14 up 11:20,  0 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.04
> > A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or
> > perhaps.
> >             -- Robert Benchley
> > 
> > 
> Okay people, what the h is "logging into kde as root and setting
> netbios name"?
> 
> Lee

Dunno - I either set the name manually by editing the
/etc/samba/smb.conf file or use webmin - either which is faster.
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