On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Elliott-Brennan wrote: > Hi all, > > I came home today and found I could not access the my home network server: > > RH9 > with a Webmin interface. > > The machine was down and I rebooted. I'm not sure what else I need to > post (not having much more than a basic grasp of all this). > > I've looked at the settings in Webmin and nothing appears awry. My Linux > machines have no problem accessing. I can ping the machine from M$ > but... nothing else. Neither of my W machines (one is a laptop that was > only turned on to check this out) can access the server (so it's not the > one M$ machine). > > I thought that 'samba status' as root should show me what is going on, > but I get: > > -bash: samba: command not found
The command is 'smbstatus' and will show current connections and open files. To see if the service is running you can do 'service smb status' (failing that, 'ps ax|grep smb') You may find after a samba down situation it takes up to 20 minutes to be found on the network again. Alternately down all windows machines, down the samba service with 'service smb stop', bring up the samba service with 'service smb start' (or just reboot the server and ensure samba gets started), then bring up the windows machines. > The server is behind a Smoothwall firewall and I do not access it from > outside the home network. > > As there's nothing that I need to keep, I can reinstall - in fact what > I've been trying to achieve is a 'drag and drop' for the machines that > access it - but I'm not sure of how to achieve this. I can use Webmin to > load files on to the server and I COULD read and copy using Network > N'hood (for W) and Lin N'hood, but wanted a d and d access. > > Any help appreciated - and sites that provide a dumb and dumber > description of how to achieve what I want if it's easier than I've made > it for myself. If you just want a linux based file & print server you could try Mitel SME 6.0. See here http://contribs.org/modules/news/ or if you'd just rather buy a CD locally http://www.elx.com.au/item/mitel60 There's only about 10 install questions on a text interface, then from then on everything is web based for setup. Perfect small office server but can also be an internet gateway. -- ---<GRiP>--- ** ROOM FOR RENT $120pw (neg) near Newington Shops 525/401 buses ** Electronic Hobbyist, Former Arcadia BBS nut, Occasional nudist, Linux Guru, SLUG Secretary, AUUG and Linux Australia member, Sydney Flashmobber, Tenpin Bowler, BMX rider, Walker, Raver & rave music lover, Big kid that refuses to grow up. I'd make a good family pet, take me home today! Some people actually read these things it seems. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
