samba - Dec 1999 - Samba on RedHat 6.1

We're trying to get samba running on a RH 6.1 server installation,
runnijng as a trial.  So far we can only see the server on 2 NT 4/SP4
workstations and not on the Windows 95 clients, and then only if we do a
Start/Find/Computers.  I can map a drive to a share, and can reconnect
to it after rebooting the NT workstation, but can't see the server in
Network Neighborhood.    TCP/IP is running fine - I can ping both ways,
I assume NetBIOS is not running properly.  How can I check?  smb.conf
seems fine, inetd.conf also looks good.  It's taking us ages to sort it
- can anyone help please.

Thanks
Matt Halliday            matthewh@fesa.co.uk

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On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 03:58:34 +1100, hai scritto:
>runnijng as a trial.  So far we can only see the server on 2 NT 4/SP4
>workstations and not on the Windows 95 clients, and then only if we do a
>Start/Find/Computers.  I can map a drive to a share, and can reconnect
>to it after rebooting the NT workstation, but can't see the server in
>Network Neighborhood.    TCP/IP is running fine - I can ping both ways,
Check the workgroup name, the netmask (you can ping even if netmask is
different, but you can't browse).
Set up a valid guest account on samba "guest account = ftp".
Make just one pc on the network the master browser.

On samba "encrypt password = yes", then 
smbpasswd -a <win username>

nbtstat -n
on every win machine, and see if you find some weird differences/output.

nmblookup -A ip.of.samba
on samba.

-- 
giulioo@pobox.com

I tried to get samba working on RH6.1 and gave up. Went back to 6.0 and
it worked perfectly. Can't explain it. I was pushed for time, so I
haven't checked redHat Errata. Might want to check it out and let us all
know what you find.

FYI: on RH6.1 I could see all shares from smbclient, even log onto the
win95/98 workstations, but could never get to the Samba share from
win95/98, not even with "find:computer." I took the same smb.conf, and
the same version of samba to a RH6.0 installation and have been fine
with it ever since.

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Ethan Vaughn
vaughne@home.com


MattHalliday wrote:

We're trying to get samba running on a RH 6.1 server installation,
runnijng as a trial.  So far we can only see the server on 2 NT 4/SP4
workstations and not on the Windows 95 clients, and then only if we do a

Start/Find/Computers.  I can map a drive to a share, and can reconnect
to it after rebooting the NT workstation, but can't see the server in
Network Neighborhood.    TCP/IP is running fine - I can ping both ways,
I assume NetBIOS is not running properly.  How can I check?  smb.conf
seems fine, inetd.conf also looks good.  It's taking us ages to sort it
- can anyone help please.

Thanks
Matt Halliday            matthewh@fesa.co.uk