As I mentioned, I soloved the ping problem, though I must admit I'm not sure how now that you commented on it. However, I still can't do an smbmount from either linux box to the other, even when all the firewalls are off there's no login or r/w restrictions, everyone's on the same workgroup, etc. I must be missing something, but I haven't a clue. P
On Monday 27 June 2005 10:56 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Paul Kaplan wrote: > > Solved the pinging problem by resetting local master to no on one > > machine. I'm certain that the firewall is off (on both linux machines), > > that they are both in the same workgroup, that the samba share has the > > appropriate permissions, rwx-r-xr-x, that there are no restrictions on > > who can access the share, that there are no host access restrictions. > > Still no way in to the share through the LAN. > > Still baffled (clearly I'm still missing something). > > Paul > > Something strange here - the Samba settings do not affect the ping > command. For that matter, ping works without Samba installed. Unless we > are talking about something different when we talk about being able to > ping another machine. > > This is what people normaly mean when they ping another machine: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ping -c2 192.168.1.1 > > PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.941 ms > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.923 ms > > --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- > 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.923/0.932/0.941/0.009 ms > > Now, on the machine that you can not see, what happens when you run > "service smb status"? You should see something like: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] usb]# service smb status > smbd (pid 20146 20136) is running... > nmbd (pid 20147) is running... > > If smbd if not running, then you can not share any directories on that > machine. You may also want to run testparm to check for errors in your > samba.conf file. > > Mikkel
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