Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-06-03 Thread Ross Cavanagh
Robert wrote: It might be easier to give up.* For years, I had a single inkjet printer on my modest home network, physically connected to this machine. It works great once setup until something changes. (Versions of Windows and/or versions and/or flavors of Linux on another box.) A while ba

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-06-03 Thread Robert
MHR wrote: On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:16 AM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: win9X has horrible network username habits...you need to determine what username its running as... dirty trick, log off, and the username should be in the login prompt, just hit enter to relogin with

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-06-03 Thread MHR
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:16 AM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> win9X has horrible network username habits...you need to determine what >> username its running as... dirty trick, log off, and the username should be >> in the login prompt, just hit enter to relogin with the sam

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-06-02 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 10:29 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:16 AM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > win9X has horrible network username habits...you need to determine what > > username its running as... dirty trick, log off, and the username should be > > in the lo

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-06-02 Thread Toby Bluhm
John R Pierce wrote: MHR wrote: The 98 boot has an automatic (no password) logon. As I said, I can't win9X has horrible network username habits...you need to determine what username its running as... dirty trick, log off, and the username should be in the login prompt, just hit enter to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-06-02 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:16 AM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > win9X has horrible network username habits...you need to determine what > username its running as... dirty trick, log off, and the username should be > in the login prompt, just hit enter to relogin with the same user

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-06-02 Thread John R Pierce
MHR wrote: The 98 boot has an automatic (no password) logon. As I said, I can't use the Network Neighborhood to see anything on the server - in fact, it can't even see the workgroup, even after I double checked all the setting. However, I can attempt to attach to resources, but, e.g., when I tr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-06-02 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:25 AM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a couple of partial solutions. > : > > Unfortunately, this did nothing to help the remote Windows 98 boot, > which still can't see the network server or its resources. Also > unfortunately, the 98 boot is the more important o

RE: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-06-02 Thread John
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MHR Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 6:34 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:20 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > """I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-06-02 Thread MHR
I have a couple of partial solutions. For the remote Windows XP boot: 1) The firewall (ZoneAlarm) was blocking all pings. Why? I have no idea. According to its program data, ping was enabled for local and internet access, and the "allow server" fields were unset (meaning that it was supposed t

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-06-01 Thread MHR
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:20 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > """If you logged on from the Windows Guest Account then you know it is > authenticating by the guest or nobody account that's on the Samba Server. > The previous config file I that I stuck in the mail for you will work on a > Windows

RE: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-06-01 Thread John
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MHR Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 4:01 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 5:55 PM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think your

RE: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-06-01 Thread John
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MHR Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 5:40 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question I just found something interesting. I brought up my XP guest, and it had no trouble at all

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-06-01 Thread MHR
I just found something interesting. I brought up my XP guest, and it had no trouble at all connecting to the shares, but it couldn't open the workgroup at all and the printer had become disconnected. I could not reconnect through the workgroup (duh), but if I just input the network name, the prin

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-06-01 Thread MHR
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 5:55 PM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think your reading the wrong guide, try this one and this has traversed on > long enough. Almost Two weeks now. 1) This has been going on, on and off, for a lot longer than two weeks. 2) I was hoping that it would be considered

RE: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-05-31 Thread John
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MHR Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 2:57 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:17 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-05-31 Thread MHR
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:17 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Christopher Chan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Try adding 'guest ok = yes' to the printer share configuration. >> > I will - thanks. > I did - no change. >> ...I think you need to pick a bit mor

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-05-27 Thread MHR
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try adding 'guest ok = yes' to the printer share configuration. > I will - thanks. > ...I think you need to pick a bit more on Windows networking...more reading > of the books/documentation provided with samba should

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-05-27 Thread Christopher Chan
MHR wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do they should up if you run the command below in the Linux host? smbclient -L //localhost I'm guessing you meant "show up" and yes, everything looks normal, but only if I use a -U option with a known user

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-05-27 Thread MHR
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do they should up if you run the command below in the Linux host? > > smbclient -L //localhost > I'm guessing you meant "show up" and yes, everything looks normal, but only if I use a -U option with a known user. Is t

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-05-25 Thread MHR
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 7:51 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Simple Configuration... Your Global is wrong. This is for sane simple > Printing! Read the samba howto's on samba.org. > I have - several times. This is what was working for my host-guest combo. > [global] > printing =

RE: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-05-25 Thread John
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MHR Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 4:00 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question My main system is a CentOS 5.1 64-bit desktop with gobs of disk and a couple of printers attached tha

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-05-25 Thread Christopher Chan
MHR wrote: My main system is a CentOS 5.1 64-bit desktop with gobs of disk and a couple of printers attached that work just fine. I have it set up with samba so my VMWare guest Windows XP can access most of the files and the printers. But, when I try to connect to the printers from a remot