On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 23:06, DJ Busch wrote: > After receiving no response to yesterday's message, I tried some more web > scouring and more tinkering and dinking around with Samba...and I discovered > what may be a major key to my problem... > > I have 3 PC's...2 are Windoze and 1 is Linux. Windoze machines are likely to > understand how to share files across subnets using the same workgroup > name...but is Samba as adept? I have a feeling that is at the heart of my > problem. um - why are all these pcs on different subnets? windows cannot handle browsing across subnets without a WINS server but you've enabled that so you should be okay. > > I enabled wins support in my smb.conf and assigned the Samba box's IP address > as the primary wins server on the WFW box. I also set Samba to be the domain > master browser according to the instructions in BROWSING.txt. All of this, > alas, was useless as I still couldn't browse the Win-duhs shares from Linux > or the Linux shares from Winduhs. I feel that I'm getting much closer to my > goal (file sharing without using Windows) and would really appreciate any > help any of you can offer. you mention WFW - is that Windows for Workgroups? that is from about 1993 you know... I don't know if it can handle encrpted passwords. > > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. > > DJ Busch > > Here is my latest attempt at smb.conf: > > [global] > workgroup = LEGEND > netbios name = LUKE > server string = Dave's Linux Experiment Gone Wrong > interfaces = eth0 > bind interfaces only = Yes > security = SHARE > encrypt passwords = Yes do some checking to be sure the wfw can handle 3.11 > null passwords = Yes > log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m what do you see in these logs? > debug level = 5 > max log size = 50 > ; socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 > os level = 2 > lm announce = yes i don't think you need lm announce > preferred master = yes > domain master = yes i don't think you want this either try setting it to "auto" > dns proxy = No > wins support = yes > guest account = doodles is this a valid account on the linux machine? is it in /etc/smbpasswd? it has to be both. does it have at least read permission on /home?
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