I can not get my linux server to show up in my network neighborhood in windows98. I am using a LINKSYS cable router to network two pcs together. I know my network is working fine because I can connect from one windows pc to another but not to the linux box. I think the problem has something to do with the router be a DHCP server. I don't think I am setting up some of the ip addresses or names correctly to allow the machines to talk to one another. Has anyone had any experience connecting a linux and windows pc using LINKSYS DSL/CABLE ROUTER?? If so, maybe you could tell me what I may need to do. Also, when I run "smbclient -L localhost" I get a connection refused and connection to local host failed after it says what addresses it has added. Thanks for your help! -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
Using that particular router should not matter at all. Just treat it as you would any other hub. Although I think it would be easier to set up the router to NOT be a DHCP server, and use a private network subnet. The manual that comes with that router gives _complete_ instructions on how to this. Of course make sure your smb.conf is set up correctly as well. Good Luck.. Regards, J On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Gary Stanton wrote:> I can not get my linux server to show up in my network neighborhood in windows98. I am using a LINKSYS cable router to network two pcs together. I know my network is working fine because I can connect from one windows pc to another but not to the linux box. > > I think the problem has something to do with the router be a DHCP server. I don't think I am setting up some of the ip addresses or names correctly to allow the machines to talk to one another. > > Has anyone had any experience connecting a linux and windows pc using LINKSYS DSL/CABLE ROUTER?? If so, maybe you could tell me what I may need to do. > > Also, when I run "smbclient -L localhost" I get a connection refused and connection to local host failed after it says what addresses it has added. > > Thanks for your help! >
It sounds like you need to walk throught DIAGNOSIS.TXT which is in doc/textdocs in your samba sources. Joel On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:50:29PM -0400, Gary Stanton wrote:> I can not get my linux server to show up in my network neighborhood in windows98. I am using a LINKSYS cable router to network two pcs together. I know my network is working fine because I can connect from one windows pc to another but not to the linux box.
I have this linksys cable/dsl router here at work an at home an had a samba server at both locations. No problem at either location . I have a mix of win95/98/me at work an they see the server. I'm letting the router serve up ip's for now til i get that working on the linux box. Im using suse linux by the way. Not sure what your problem is. can you manuelly setup the win98 box to see the samba server, not by browsing. ex go into my computer on the that machine an under tools click on the map network drive, an give the path to the samba server, here is my path ex \\Horizon\horizon\ . where as \\Horizon is the name of the machine an the \horizon is my share name on that server. give that a try an see if it works for you. jack malone Network Administrator Horizon Industries At 09:50 PM 9/17/2001 -0400, Gary Stanton wrote:>I can not get my linux server to show up in my network neighborhood in >windows98. I am using a LINKSYS cable router to network two pcs >together. I know my network is working fine because I can connect from >one windows pc to another but not to the linux box. > >I think the problem has something to do with the router be a DHCP >server. I don't think I am setting up some of the ip addresses or names >correctly to allow the machines to talk to one another. > >Has anyone had any experience connecting a linux and windows pc using >LINKSYS DSL/CABLE ROUTER?? If so, maybe you could tell me what I may >need to do. > >Also, when I run "smbclient -L localhost" I get a connection refused and >connection to local host failed after it says what addresses it has added. > >Thanks for your help!-------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
Hello Joel, I use the Linksys BEFSR41 at home to connect PC's to each other and also a Sun Solaris box running Samba. I agree with the previous poster that for a small network, static addresses are easier to deal with. DHCP really has advantages when you have hundreds of PC and several subnets a people are changing offices on a regular basis. On my private network the static address seem to have more trouble. The connection refused is quite possibly the key. Normally, the "Connection Refused" message means that the linux box is not listening on the port. It could mean that you are using tcp wrappers or the hosts allow and deny in samba, but that usually results in a connection closed. Try some other apps from the PC such as ping, telnet, and ftp to connect to the linux box. In the HTML book supplied with samba gives pretty good tests to track down the problem. /usr/local/samba/swat/using_samba/ch09_03.html is where this can be found.> Gary Stanton wrote: > > I can not get my linux server to show up in my network neighborhood in > windows98. I am using a LINKSYS cable router to network two pcs together. I > know my network is working fine because I can connect from one windows pc to > another but not to the linux box. > > I think the problem has something to do with the router be a DHCP server. I > don't think I am setting up some of the ip addresses or names correctly to > allow the machines to talk to one another. > > Has anyone had any experience connecting a linux and windows pc using LINKSYS > DSL/CABLE ROUTER?? If so, maybe you could tell me what I may need to do. > > Also, when I run "smbclient -L localhost" I get a connection refused and > connection to local host failed after it says what addresses it has added. > > Thanks for your help!-- Robert E. Styma Principal Engineer AG Communication Systems, Phoenix - A subsidiary of Lucent Email: stymar@agcs.com Phone: 623-582-7323 FAX: 623-581-4884 Company: http://www.agcs.com Personal: http://www.swlink.net/~styma