First: Are all three machines "members" of the same workgroup?
Are you SURE that you've defined the Workgroup name in Samba the SAME as that used on your other Winblows boxes? Second: When you log into windows you are asked for a user name and password. This user name and password, gets passed to Samba whenever you connect to a share and browse the network. Thus a Linux/Unix account AND a corresponding Samba account must exist for each of these login name/password pairs. I.E. you need to use smbadduser and smbpasswd to add the SAMBA users to Linux's SAMBA user/password lists. ALWAYS double check this using SMBCLIENT "smbclient -L LINUXBOX -U WINUSER " Asks the Samba "Linuxbox", to log in as "WINUSER" and present the shares. When you configured SAMBA, you should have also enabled the NMB component and enabled SAMBA to be the BROWSE MASTER for your network or domain. This is what presents the shares to the Winblows workstations. (the icons). If you havent increase the OS LEVEL in samba, the browse master will be decided by election amoung your computers (REALLY they vote!). When things change the browse list(s) dissappear for awhile until things get sorted out again. If your Linux box is up all the time, make it the BROWSE MASTER so that things will not keep shifting and disappearing. Did you also remember to define the DEVICES (aka IP ADDRESSES) using the INTERFACES = Line? If not Samba will not broadcast it's information until something nudges it. -JMS |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lee Roberts |Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 5:40 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] internet sharing setup | | |At 02:52 PM 12/7/2001 -0500, Ed Tharp wrote: |> |>why ftp? could use samba and be up and running and sharing files and |>drives |>and printers w/ the winders boxes in no time? | |Speaking of Samba, I get the icon for the Linux box to show |up on my Win2K & Win95 clients but I can't browse the Linux |box. And if I restart Windows, I have to restart the services |on the Linux box before I can display the network icons again |- that sucks. Win95 asks for a password to try to access the |Linux box - that fails, of course. I used the procedure for |Samba from the techtv.com website. Apparently, it's not that |easy to set up Samba. So, what am I doing wrong? BTW, I can |ping all 3 machines on my network - can't share files with any |of them even though the icons show up on the Windows boxes. |And internet connection sharing works OK. | |No wonder network administrators get the big bucks. | | | |
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