On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Tom Massey wrote:
> machine. I've got a Win95 machine (called bob, IP=192.168.1.2) connected
> to my Linux box (IP=192.168.1.1). C drive is a share on the Win95
> $ smbclient //bob/c/
Have you tried:
smbclient -L //<linux-machine-name>
When it asks for a password just give it a <CR>. You should be seeing all
SMB boxes on the network (ie the linux box and bob). If you don't there
is probably a problem with your samba setup.
> $ smbclient //192.168.1.2/c/
This won't work AFAIK.
> Can anybody tell me what's happening here? I assume it's just that I
> haven't got the right names in the right places. I can ping bob fine, am
The names are in the right places ok.
> using IP chains to let bob share the net connection, bob can print to a
> Samba shared printer on my Linux box. I think it's a problem at the Linux
> end, because I've had this working before and the Win95 machine hasn't
Sounds like it.
> been changed since - stuff on the Linux box has been played with too much
> for me to be sure what's happened. Any ideas?
Have you changed the workgroup names?
I suspect there could be something that has changed in the smb.conf.
What version of samba are you using?
tom.
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