Does Samba support Windows ME machines/networks? From what I can gather, it seems that Samba can't register the netbios name on a Windows ME network. I've installed and configured Samba on my linux box along with DNS. I know that DNS is working correctly, and I know Samba is setup correctly occording to all the documentation that I've went through. I have one other machine on the small network, Windows ME machine, but I can't access my Linux box via Network Neighborhood. The machine name (netbios name) for the linux box can't be found. I used the tool nmblookup on my linux box and it finds the Windows ME machine find, but it cant find this host that I'm on, the linux box.
On 2001.09.27 08:55 David Turner wrote:> Does Samba support Windows ME machines/networks? From what I can > gather, it seems that Samba can't register the netbios name on a Windows > ME network. > > I've installed and configured Samba on my linux box along with DNS. I > know that DNS is working correctly, and I know Samba is setup correctly > occording to all the documentation that I've went through. > > I have one other machine on the small network, Windows ME machine, but I > can't access my Linux box via Network Neighborhood. The machine name > (netbios name) for the linux box can't be found. > > I used the tool nmblookup on my linux box and it finds the Windows ME > machine find, but it cant find this host that I'm on, the linux box.I have a network with one Linux server (also a WINS server), one Linux Workstation, two Windows Me workstations, and one Windows NT 4.0 workstation. The only problem I've noted (as I check now) is that the NT box is denied permission to access shares on the Me boxes. I'm not sure that that's a Samba issue, though. All three Microsoft boxes see the Linux shares just fine, though, and the Me boxes see the NT shares and the other Me shares, as well. I'm running Samba 2.2 (the latest release). Raven ------------------------------------------------------------ Raven (not the OTHER Raven, THAT Raven! :-) <dmstowell@ameritech.net> And if love remains Though everything is lost We will pay the price But we will not count the cost
I just installed Red Hat 7.2 and Samba. Everything went smoothly as it has always gone in the past. All of my clients connect and I have had no problems, except for one Windows ME machine. The Windows ME machine connects without a problem and I can copy and open single files without a problem. The problem starts when I try to copy a directory containing 130 megs of files from the Windows ME machine to the Samba server. The files copy fine and are on the Samba server in tact and the Windows side shows them as complete as well. But then Windows Explorer locks up and the lights on the switch keep going for hours. No additional data seems to be written on the Samba side, but the lights don’t stop until I kill the process on the Windows machine. Any ideas what is wrong? Thanks Chad __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Chad Baker wrote:> I just installed Red Hat 7.2 and Samba. Everything > went smoothly as it has always gone in the past. All > of my clients connect and I have had no problems, > except for one Windows ME machine. The Windows ME > machine connects without a problem and I can copy and > open single files without a problem. The problem > starts when I try to copy a directory containing 130 > megs of files from the Windows ME machine to the Samba > server. The files copy fine and are on the Samba > server in tact and the Windows side shows them as > complete as well. But then Windows Explorer locks up > and the lights on the switch keep going for hours. No > additional data seems to be written on the Samba side, > but the lights don’t stop until I kill the process on > the Windows machine. Any ideas what is wrong?Check your NIC, check you HUB. I too have several Windows ME machines and none have any problems. On Sunday I copied a directory containing 6500 files and about 100 directories from WinME to Samba without a single problem. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org