On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 22:24 -0600, Eric Hines wrote: > At 01/02/06 21:37, Adam Nielsen wrote: > > > I'm having trouble connecting to my Samba server. The immediate > > > symptom is that I cannot see my Samba server in my Windows Network > > > Neighborhood, and so I cannot connect to it to check my share > > > connections. ---- try 'wins support = yes' in smb.conf ---- > > > >You can still go Start | Run \\ip.address to connect to a 'hidden' > >Samba server. > > I get a "network path not found" error. However, when I do the same > thing for each of the two subnets, I get invited to log in (my Samba > error, I think--I may have not yet put anything into my tdbsam. I'm > still trying to get the network itself to work.) > > > > I can ping all by hostname, as well as by FQDN; although it appeared > > > that I could not ping sserver by hostname only until I added sserver > > > and its FQDN to the PC's host file (which it reads as though it were > > > an lmhosts file). I say "it appeared" because it looked like the > > > forward and reverse look up files for sserver appeared in the PC's > > > resolver cache before I made this addition, but I got too fast with a > > > ping test and contaminated that datum. > > > >It sounds like "nmbd" isn't running, or more likely, it's only running > >on one subnet. There are all sorts of issues using NetBIOS names > >across different subnets, but Google will tell you all about that. > > I do have only one instance of nmbd running, and two of smbd. How do > I get another nmbd instance to run? ---- not needed ---- > > > >If running \\samba.ip on a Windows box works, then this is definitely > >the problem. > > Additional data, from an error log I have named.conf generating, > keeping in mind that I have dynamic dns turned on. I'm getting > messages to the effect that my test1 dot biz dot hosts dot jnl file > (test1 dot biz dot hosts is the forward lookup file that, among other > things, defines the points of contact for my two subnets) cannot be > created due to a permission denied error. My test1 dot biz dot hosts > forward lookup table lives in /var/lib/named/master directory, with > permissions rw-r--r--, and it's owned by root:root. Further, even > though I have ddns running, this test1 dot biz dot hosts file remains > unchanged from the day I created it--not a thing has been added to > it. Should there have been by now, or am I exposing my ignorance > here? Further, my named and dhcpd are running in separate chroot > jails. Is this causing problems with updating this file--or any > other of my forward lookup files? ---- on most systems, named runs as user named and thus cannot make changes to files owned by root:root and cannot create journal files in folders unless owned by named:named and chmod 775 ---- > > Finally, what do the error messages mean, and what do I need to do to > correct that? ---- probably follow some of the best documentation available and resist the temptation to shortcut it.
http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-ByExample/ this might be just the chapter you are looking for... http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-ByExample/Big500users.html Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
