I'm trying to troubleshoot a new samba setup on a tiny network, and I'm clearly missing something. I'm running Samba 3.0.22 on Ubuntu Linux.
When I first set it up, it seemed to go so smoothly. I changed all the workstations to the same workgroup (RABNETWORK) and they could see each other and the server, but they couldn't open anything on the server. I don't really understand what the problem is, but I didn't change anything, I gave up and went home. Now, none of the workstations can browse the network at all. When I click "View workgroup computers" the error I get says that the network is not accessible. Even with the server off, the network is not accessible (hence my suspicion that samba is not the problem). What I can't sort out is what the problem is likely to be. I tried stopping the firewall (AVG) altogether, which didn't make a difference. I tried to walk through this diagnosis worksheet: http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/diagnosis.html and got the following results: 1) testparm works 2) ping by name fails; I can ping the server's IP address from the Windows clients, but can't ping the Windows machines from the server. 3) works: smbclient -L BIGSERVER Domain=[BEASTIE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.22] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- homes Disk Home Directories print$ Disk Printer Drivers Share Drive Disk This is the server. tmp Disk temporary files IPC$ IPC IPC Service (beastie server (Samba, Ubuntu)) ADMIN$ IPC IPC Service (beastie server (Samba, Ubuntu)) amanda Disk Home Directories Domain=[BEASTIE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.22] Server Comment --------- ------- Workgroup Master --------- ------- RABNETWORK BEASTIE 4) works: *nmblookup -B BIGSERVER __SAMBA__ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nmblookup -B BEASTIE __SAMBA__ querying __SAMBA__ on 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.102 __SAMBA__<00> *5) fails:* nmblookup -B ACLIENT '*'** [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nmblookup -B presta '*' querying * on 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.102 *<00> I'm stopping here because it seems pretty clear that the Windows XP client machines are hating me.Where do I go from here? Thanks, Amanda * -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
