I'm working on the first of a few Samba machines for our network. It's running RedHat 6.2 and Samba 2.0.7. On the NT 4.0 side of things I can see the machine (with the correct name) if I do NET VIEW or look in the Network Neighborhood. However, when I do "NET VIEW \\SambaServer" I get an Error 5 Access Denied. (Test 8) So I started on the diagnosis and got to Item 5. When I issue "nmblookup -B ntserver '*'" I get back the IP Address of the Samba Box. I'm guessing that's not what I should get back. I'm guessing I should get back the IP Address of the "ntserver". I have host allow set to ALL (do I need to do something else? I didn't quite understand that part of the doc) and I don't have anything in the host deny (on the theory that anyone should be able to see this machine. I'm also setting "map to guest" if there is a bad user. (My goal was that anyone should be able to get to the shares on this machine...) Test 6 and 7 work fine... 8 fails as i mentioned above and obviously I can't do 9 since I need to be able to see the share from NT before I can map it. Test 10 returns the correct master browser (this is the machine I tried in Test 5 and it failed, this machine is also the PDC for the domain). Since this works and test 5 fails, does this mean I should change my lookup order? It's "lmhosts host wins bcast" right now (I don't have a WINS server on our network...) Test 11 I'm not sure if this would work given the failure of test 8 and 5 so I didn't try it. I'm not sure it matters but my security is set to USER and the WORKGROUP is set to the name of the domain. I'm also using DHCP to configure my netcard and I can browse the internet (via our gateway/firewall) perfectly fine. Any advice on where to look from here? Thanks! Matt
Matt Neimeyer wrote: | When I issue "nmblookup -B ntserver '*'" I get back the IP Address of the | Samba Box. I'm guessing that's not what I should get back. I'm guessing I | should get back the IP Address of the "ntserver". Yup! If you say nmblookup -B client '*' (where client is the actual name of the client machine). you should get something like: Sending queries to 192.168.236.10 192.168.236.10 * Got a positive name query response from 192.168.236.10 (192.168.236.10) This sounds a lot like a WINS, /etc/hosts or DNS problem, as nmblookup should be converting 'client' to 192.168.236.10 as in the example. --dave [ps: That was from 9.2.6.3 Testing the client with nmblookup, in http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch09_02.html] -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify some people 185 Ellerslie Ave., | and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Willowdale, Ontario | //www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/author.html Work: (905) 415-2849 Home: (416) 223-8968 Email: davecb@canada.sun.com