If you don't want to type the ip adress of your samba server every time you connect, add a entry to your local hosts file and lmhosts file. You will find this files (and sample files with extension ".sam") in the windows main directory of Win95 and under "system32/drivers/etc" on WinNT 4.0. Regards, System-Consulting Kollien Rudolf Kollien Email: kollien@kollien.de Our home on the net: http://www.kollien.de *************************************************************************** Never trust a operating system you have no sources for *************************************************************************** Buying an operating system without source is like buying a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions.> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro [mailto:jcastro@pcshop.com.br] > Gesendet am: Dienstag, 8. September 1998 18:28 > An: Multiple recipients of list > Betreff: Re: Samba across subnets? > > Try to go to Start / Run... and type \\201.202.203.204\yourshare, > placing your > server's IP instead of 201.202.203.204 and a real share name instead of > "yourshare". I was even able to connect to a VERY remote Samba > server using this > syntax. > > []'s, > Juan > > Paul L. Lussier wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I've recently set up a samba server, but just discovered that people > > on the "other" side can't reach it. The system shows up in Network > > Neighborhood, but you can't double click on it. It returns a > message saying > > that the server is either inaccessible, or that I misspelled the name > > (How I did that with just one mouse click is beyond me ;) > > > > I had 'allow hosts' undefined, accepting the default of > allowing all hosts, > > and tried changing it to include the 2 subnets we have up here, > but it didn't > > seem to take any affect. Is it trying to do a DNS resolution > or something? > > The system isn't in our local DNS server, only NIS. And since I'm using > > aliases with the system, they aren't in either DNS or NIS. I > would expect > > it to resolve via netbios, since it is showing up in the NN browser! > > > > TIA, > > > > -- > > > > Seeya, > > Paul > > ---- > > plussier@baynetworks.com > > Broadband Technology Division - Bay Networks (now a Nortel > Company, Ay! :) > > > > If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right! > > > >
Won't WINS also help with this? -aaz At 03:46 AM 9/9/98 +1000, Rudolf Kollien wrote:>If you don't want to type the ip adress of your samba server every time you >connect, add a entry to your local hosts file and lmhosts file. > >You will find this files (and sample files with extension ".sam") in the >windows main directory of Win95 and under "system32/drivers/etc" on WinNT >4.0. > >Regards, > > >System-Consulting Kollien >Rudolf Kollien > >Email: kollien@kollien.de >Our home on the net: http://www.kollien.de >*************************************************************************** >Never trust a operating system you have no sources for >*************************************************************************** >Buying an operating system without source is like buying >a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions. > > >> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro [mailto:jcastro@pcshop.com.br] >> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 8. September 1998 18:28 >> An: Multiple recipients of list >> Betreff: Re: Samba across subnets? >> >> Try to go to Start / Run... and type \\201.202.203.204\yourshare, >> placing your >> server's IP instead of 201.202.203.204 and a real share name instead of >> "yourshare". I was even able to connect to a VERY remote Samba >> server using this >> syntax. >> >> []'s, >> Juan >> >> Paul L. Lussier wrote: >> >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I've recently set up a samba server, but just discovered that people >> > on the "other" side can't reach it. The system shows up in Network >> > Neighborhood, but you can't double click on it. It returns a >> message saying >> > that the server is either inaccessible, or that I misspelled the name >> > (How I did that with just one mouse click is beyond me ;) >> > >> > I had 'allow hosts' undefined, accepting the default of >> allowing all hosts, >> > and tried changing it to include the 2 subnets we have up here, >> but it didn't >> > seem to take any affect. Is it trying to do a DNS resolution >> or something? >> > The system isn't in our local DNS server, only NIS. And since I'm using >> > aliases with the system, they aren't in either DNS or NIS. I >> would expect >> > it to resolve via netbios, since it is showing up in the NN browser! >> > >> > TIA, >> > >> > -- >> > >> > Seeya, >> > Paul >> > ---- >> > plussier@baynetworks.com >> > Broadband Technology Division - Bay Networks (now a Nortel >> Company, Ay! :) >> > >> > If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right! >> >> >> >> >
Yes, if you can reach your wins server (maybe samba). System-Consulting Kollien Rudolf Kollien Email: kollien@kollien.de Our home on the net: http://www.kollien.de *************************************************************************** Never trust a operating system you have no sources for *************************************************************************** Buying an operating system without source is like buying a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions.