Have you gotten any responses? This sounds like a network issue, not a samba issue. As an amateur, I track these problems down by: 1. Looking at the output of tcpdump. 2. Looking at arp -n. 3. Looking into misconfigured DNS. 4. Putting the server into lmhosts or hosts. 5. Looking at route -n.
Joel On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 09:34:38AM -0800, bo wang wrote: > Hello, > I have installed samba in a > Linux RedHat 8.0 PC in my lab > as a file server. The clients > of samba are PCs with MS Windows98. > Now I meet some problems, I can see > samba server name in Network Neighborhood, > but when I click the icon, I get this > error message after a long delay: > Cannot link to Linuxserver(server name). > And I used Ethereal to track the packets > to find the problem, I found that there > were errors like "ICMP: Destination Unreachable" > when packets came from server to client. > The same problem occured when I used > FTP from client to check the TCP. > Ping is ok(I can ping form server to client and > client to server), so I don't understand this problem, > thank you for your helps and advices. > > ---------------------------- > WANG BO > Institute of Mobile Communication > Southwest Jiaotong University > China > ------------------------------ > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
