Samba 2.0.7

Richard Ibbotson
Tue, 08 May 2001 19:44:12 -0000

Hello

I've been helping a friend to plug a Win95 machine into a Samba
server that I've built for him.  He's also got a Win 98 machine but
we'll leave that out of it just now.  I've finished it and it works
fine.  SuSE 7.1.  Using Komba2 in KDE 2.1.1 I can see the whole
network through the Linux box.  All I have to do is click on the
right machine in the Komba2 window and it does an SMB mount straight
away.

However, when I try to mount the files on the Linux box from the Win
95 machine with Network Neighborhood I find that an error message
pops up which says that the Linux server cannot be found.  But, we
can see the machine on the network in Network Neighborhood.

Spoke to Jeremy Allison about this and he said that he thought that
it was something to do with the IPX protocol being enabled over the
network.  I've removed that and I still can't get the Win 95 box to
connect to the Linux box. He also said to try Samba 2.2 but that
doesn't work either.

I've used all of Andrews tests which can be viewed at.......

http://www.sheflug.co.uk/networks.htm

and I've found not much that makes any sense.  All I can say is that
it looks as though the Linux box is working fine.  'testparm
smb.conf' reveals that all is well.  'smbclient -L BIGSERVER'
reveals
that there is an "error connecting to BIGSERVER". Don't know why.
nmbdlookup -d 2 '*"  reveals that all is well.  'smbclient
'\\BIGSERVER\TMP' "  shows that the connection is refused.  After
trying to put "net view \\BIGSERVER" into a DOS window on the Win
4.00.950 C system an error message came back which said... " Error
53: The computer name specified in the network path cannot be
located." Also tried "net use x: \\BIGSERVER\TMP".  It says
"net:
command not found".

Anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong here ?  Network cards are fine.
Tried everything that I can think of.

Thanks

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Richard