samba@samba.org said:>> The only obvious difference between this and a normal ethernet >> connection >> that I can see is that when dialling in, the server is on two networks >> (one for ethernet and one for ppp) and the client is only on one of >> those >> (the ppp side obviously). >> >> Despite that, I can ping the server and telnet to it (Implying that >> the >> routing setup is OK): all I cannot do is see it or it's shares. >> (Implying >> ????))> Do you mean "see its shares" in windoze exploder?> Samba only binds to the first ethernet interface (eth0 under linux) > by default; did you add the ppp interface to the smb.conf file?G'day Steve. Thank you for your reply to my question. As you suggested, it was the interface config option that I needed. The only problem now is that nmbd will not start unless the second interface (PPP) is up and running - which it seldom is. I have tried starting nmbd from startup and from inetd with the same result. How does one tell nmbd to not barf if it cannot find one of the interfaces? Cheers and thanks, Stephen Davies =======================================================================Stephen Davies Consulting scldad@sdc.com.au Adelaide, South Australia. Voice: 61-8-82728863 Computing & Network solutions. Fax: 61-8-82741015
perhaps you could put up another machine on your network, one who's only purpose is to work as a dialup server. the windows client establishes a connection to the 2nd machine and becomes part of the network. at this point, the windows machine's requests will appear to the samba server to have come from ethernet, rather than ppp. this second machine need not be anything special. a p100 with a fair amount of ram and *maybe* 200mb hard drive space will more than suffice. . jake kuntz : Megabite Systems . . www.underworld.net/~jake/ : http://www.megabite.net/ . . natural selection's gonna get you : making technology work since 1984 . ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Davies <scldad@sdc.com.au> To: Multiple recipients of list <samba@samba.org> Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 8:41 PM Subject: Re: dailin access to shares> >samba@samba.org said: >>> The only obvious difference between this and a normal ethernet >>> connection >>> that I can see is that when dialling in, the server is on two networks >>> (one for ethernet and one for ppp) and the client is only on one of >>> those >>> (the ppp side obviously). >>> >>> Despite that, I can ping the server and telnet to it (Implying that >>> the >>> routing setup is OK): all I cannot do is see it or it's shares. >>> (Implying >>> ????)) > >> Do you mean "see its shares" in windoze exploder? > >> Samba only binds to the first ethernet interface (eth0 under linux) >> by default; did you add the ppp interface to the smb.conf file? > > >G'day Steve. > >Thank you for your reply to my question. > >As you suggested, it was the interface config option that I needed. > >The only problem now is that nmbd will not start unless the secondinterface>(PPP) is up and running - which it seldom is. > >I have tried starting nmbd from startup and from inetd with the sameresult.> >How does one tell nmbd to not barf if it cannot find one of the interfaces? > >Cheers and thanks, >Stephen Davies > >=======================================================================>Stephen Davies Consulting scldad@sdc.com.au >Adelaide, South Australia. Voice:61-8-82728863>Computing & Network solutions. Fax:61-8-82741015> >
On 13 Mar 99, Stephen Davies <scldad@sdc.com.au> had questions about Re: dailin access to shares: [snip]> How does one tell nmbd to not barf if it cannot find one of the > interfaces?How did you specify the interface in smb.conf? As 0.0.0.0? I've got a full afternoon today, but it's supposed to rain tomorrow, so I could probably try it then... Steve ************************************************************* Steve Arnold sarnold@earthling.net http://www.rain.org/~sarnold Conserving bandwidth (and belly-button lint...)
On 15 Mar 99, Scott Serr <serrs@wrykyn.isu.edu> had questions about Re: dailin access to shares:> I don't have to have my PPP connection up for the nmbd start correctly. > But... It doesn't show up in browse lists. You might try doing: > Start/Find/Computer to get to that machine / those shares.Have you tried the remote announce parameter? ************************************************************* Steve Arnold sarnold@earthling.net http://www.rain.org/~sarnold Linux: The choice of a GNU generation