Hello! I am puzzled here - I have two Samba systems ; one on each different network that I am working with. One of them allows local Windoze 95 machines to view the server via network Neighborhood; the other does not. In both networks, I am able to mount shares. I have checked options; as many as I could think of, but no luck. I am stumped. Both of them are configured as NT domain controllers; in fact, both are using the same config file (except for the workgroup name) So my question: what allows a system to be viewed by opening the network neighborhood in Win95? How can I configure Samba to do this? Thanks, Mark
Hi,
I have not been having luck with Samba at all lately. I had 2.0.3
installed, and it worked fine. Then, I upgraded to 2.0.5, and my Samba
server does not show up in my network neighborhood. I moved my old
smb.conf back into place...nothing was changed.
Everything is fine. The workgroups are the same. I don't
understand the WINS server thing...can you explain what I need to do?
The biggest problem I have is that my server is on DHCP, which
causes the IP address to change frequently, meaning I have to change my
lmhosts file on every Windows machine. Any way around this annoyance?
I've been looking for someone to help, but no one has responded
yet, probably because the question has been answered dozens of times.
If anyone can help me through these problems with Samba, I would greatly
appreciate it. It's driving me crazy!!!
On 6 Aug 99, at 5:23, Ken Gerdes <gerdes@austin.rr.com> wrote:> Everything is fine. The workgroups are the same. I don't > understand the WINS server thing...can you explain what I need to > do?You just say "WINS support = yes" in your smb.conf, and put the samba box IP address in the windoze network properties. Then you don't need an lmhosts file anymore.> The biggest problem I have is that my server is on DHCP, which > causes the IP address to change frequently, meaning I have to > change my lmhosts file on every Windows machine. Any way around > this annoyance?(see below) I'm not sure you can use WINS if your samba box is a DHCP client, without a pretty clever hack with shell scripts or something (unless you want to try and integrate samba with DHCP at the source level). The simplest thing would be to go get a static IP address (there are other static resources out there). This is normally what you do with any kind of server, and I'd classify a linux/samba box as more of a legitimate server than windoze. If they don't want to give you one, then go get a baseball (or cricket) bat and try knocking the windoze crud (and FUD) out of their head(s). It works for me. Steve PS. Of course, I'm kidding, but sometimes I'd like to...