It's really weird how many times thing break in threes. This time is was my wife's laptop, my router and a phone.
Anyway... My network has a router and 2 computers; my F11 box with the samba server on it called steve and my wife's laptop now running Windows 7 called Kellie-PC. My old router was a Linksys WRT54G that I had flashed with DD-WRT. I was using DHCP and DNS masquerading in the router. The new router is a CISCO E3000 which isn't supported yet by DD-WRT so no local DNS but I'm still using DHCP. For my test I added Kellie-PC to /etc/hosts and check the IP address before I run the test. steve can ping Kellie-PC by name and Kellie-PC can ping steve by IP address. I have one samba user, Kellie, defined. Following the samba checklist (http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/diagnosis.html) and running these commands in a terminal window on steve as user steve: $ smbclient -L steve -U Kellie Enter Kellie's password: Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.7-0.50.fc11] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- homes Disk Home Directories Kellie Disk Kellies Documents and Settings folder on the Winblows side of Steves computer IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Steve's Samba Server Version 3.4.7-0.50.fc11) DESKJET_600 Printer Steve's printer -2600-Series Printer Lexmark 2600 Series Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.7-0.50.fc11] Server Comment --------- ------- COPPERFISH E3000 STEVE Steve's Samba Server Version 3.4.7-0.50.fc11 Workgroup Master --------- ------- WORKGROUP COPPERFISH $ nmblookup -B steve __SAMBA__ querying __SAMBA__ on 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.120 __SAMBA__<00> $ nmblookup -B Kellie-PC '*' querying * on 192.168.1.122 name_query failed to find name * I suspect that this is some kind of permissions problem on the Win7 box but the fact that the E3000 router is showing up as the workgroup master also looks suspect. I have tried adding the registry key LmCompatabilityMode = 1 to the Win7 machine but no luck. Any help or pointers to some readable Win7 docs would be appreciated. This used to work OK under Vista. Thanks, Steve. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
