Hello,
I'm trying to set up a very simple samba link from my Linux desktop to
my windows 95 laptop. I managed to do this on my old installation
(Caldera 2.3), but I haven't been able to do get it to work since I
installed Debian Potato. I've been following the online book "Running
Samba".
My very simple smb.conf looks like the following, and testparm reports
no errors:
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
log file = %m.log
log level = 2
[mark]
comment = For testing only
path = /home/mark
read only = no
guest ok = yes
Here's /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.100.3 debian.linux debian
192.168.100.10 x.windows x
Here's c:\windows\hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.100.3 debian.linux debian
The samba daemons seem to be running:
# smbclient -U% -L localhost
added interface ip=192.168.100.3 bcast=192.168.100.255
nmask=255.255.255.0
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.8]
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
mark Disk For testing only
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 2.0.8)
Server Comment
--------- -------
DEBIAN Samba 2.0.8
Workgroup Master
--------- -------
WORKGROUP DEBIAN
Right now, I can ping debian or localhost from debian
PING debian.linux (192.168.100.3): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.100.3: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.4 ms
I can also ping localhost or x.windows from x.windows
Pinging x [192.168.100.10] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.100.10: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
However I can not ping x.windows from debian or vice versa.
x.windows from debian:
PING x.windows (192.168.100.10): 56 data bytes
16 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
If I ping 192.168.100.3 (the Linux box) from the windows machine, I get
Request timed out
If I ping debian from the windows machine, windows first pops up the
dialogue box for my dialup connection. After I cancel that, I get
Request timed out
It seems to me that I need to check if my ethernet cards are both
working.
ifconfig on debian gives:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:8F:CA:9C
inet addr:192.168.100.3 Bcast:192.168.100.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x4000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
Question 1: Does the other information look right? I am not a network
engineer, as you can tell.
Question 2: How do I check that the network card in my windows 95
laptop is working properly? System properties -> Device manager ->
Properties just tells me that 'This device is working properly'.
Question 3: Am I heading in the right direction and what do you think I
should check next?
All suggestions gratefully received,
Mark A. Bell
http://www.users.bigpond.com/m487396
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