Nadia Kunkov
2003-Aug-13 18:24 UTC
[Samba] Help getting Samba to work (duplicate name on the network!)
Hi, I'm new to Samba. It came with my Linux distribution. I followed directions in my red hat linux book and modified smb.conf. It's partially working. If I type smb: in Nautilus location bar I do see all the windows machines on the network. When I try to log into my windows machine I can see only one directory called: pbrweb. What is that directory? How can I see others? What should I set up on the windows machine to see other directories? Now, what I would really like is to see a Linux share from windows machine. When I go to my network spaces I do see a machine Localhost and comments say it's a samba server. When I try to access it I get a message: "Localhost is not accessible, duplicate name on the network". I don't see any other Localhosts there. My only guess is that our other Linux box is running samba too and the hostnames for both of them are localhost. How do I solve this problem? Can I change a hostname? Can there be 2 samba servers on the network? Is there a problem with netbios name? I'm getting really lost.... Any help would be appreciated. Thanks N.K.
Jamrock
2003-Aug-15 23:38 UTC
[Samba] Re: Help getting Samba to work (duplicate name on the network!)
Do you want the Samba machine to be a primary domain controller? If so I would suggest looking at the following documents. They helped me to set up Samba. You already have it installed so you can ignore the section on installation. Start with the one at IBM and take it step by step. Do you have a line stating "netbios name = xxxx" in your smb.conf file? This tells Samba what name to use in network neighbourhood. http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tutorials/samba/index.html http://networking.earthweb.com/netos/article.php/1144701 http://networking.earthweb.com/netos/article.php/1151091 Remember to include the domain logons = yes command in your smb.conf file. This is required for Windows 2000/XP logons even though the literature suggests otherwise. "Nadia Kunkov" <nadiak@parkerglobal.com> wrote in message news:151954CE82EC3249A2B2A933CECB747E63ED87@MAIL01.CONNECT.CONNECTAPPS.NET..