I've had this problem since FreeBSD 4.3. This problem continues with my FreeBSD 4.4 machine. I can't connect from my Win98se and Win2kPro machines to my FreeBSD 4.4 Samba server. I've tried it all... but still no luck. I've run smbd and nmbd manually with the "-D" parameter. I can connect internally from my FreeBSD 4.4 box using "./smbclient //(hostname)/test" However, when I try to map "\\(hostname)\test" using Explorer... nothing happens. I've also tried "net view \\(hostname)\test" under the dos prompt... but again I get nothing. When I run "testparm" everything seems to work out. I've followed the directions from both Sam's "Samaba Unleashed" and the O'Reily book... but to no avail. Can anyone please help me getting samba to work with my Win machines? This has become extremely frustrating. -Sameer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
I'm using samba 2.2.2 on a FreeBSD 4.4 machine and it's working fine. What version of Samba are you running? Did you install Samba from the ports or download the source? Are you using encrypted passwords? Have you added the user account to the smbpasswd file? Unix Rookie wrote:>I've had this problem since FreeBSD 4.3. This problem continues with my >FreeBSD 4.4 machine. > >I can't connect from my Win98se and Win2kPro machines to my FreeBSD 4.4 Samba >server. > >I've tried it all... but still no luck. > >I've run smbd and nmbd manually with the "-D" parameter. I can connect >internally from my FreeBSD 4.4 box using "./smbclient //(hostname)/test" > >However, when I try to map "\\(hostname)\test" using Explorer... nothing >happens. > >I've also tried "net view \\(hostname)\test" under the dos prompt... but again >I get nothing. > >When I run "testparm" everything seems to work out. > >I've followed the directions from both Sam's "Samaba Unleashed" and the O'Reily >book... but to no avail. > >Can anyone please help me getting samba to work with my Win machines? This has >become extremely frustrating. > >-Sameer > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. >http://personals.yahoo.com >
Walk through the trouble shooting document, DIAGNOSIS.txt in the samba distribution. Joel On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:10:12AM -0800, Unix Rookie wrote:> I've had this problem since FreeBSD 4.3. This problem continues with my > FreeBSD 4.4 machine. > > I can't connect from my Win98se and Win2kPro machines to my FreeBSD 4.4 Samba > server. > > I've tried it all... but still no luck. > > I've run smbd and nmbd manually with the "-D" parameter. I can connect > internally from my FreeBSD 4.4 box using "./smbclient //(hostname)/test" > > However, when I try to map "\\(hostname)\test" using Explorer... nothing > happens. > > I've also tried "net view \\(hostname)\test" under the dos prompt... but again > I get nothing. > > When I run "testparm" everything seems to work out. > > I've followed the directions from both Sam's "Samaba Unleashed" and the O'Reily > book... but to no avail. > > Can anyone please help me getting samba to work with my Win machines? This has > become extremely frustrating. > > -Sameer > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
well, i'm actually quite new to samba, only 2 days old in fact, so if any of this is wrong, pls correct me. when i was installing samba (2.2.2, linux 2.4.10), i used DIAGNOSIS.TXT pretty much as my trouble-shooting guide. one thing i pretty much realised was, i think it almost totally missed out the fact that in order for Samba to have its shares work with Win98 clients, the user has to use a username on the Win98 machine, that exists in the samba password file. once i added the user using 'smbpasswd -a', as well as turn on password encryption in smb.conf, which was properly documented i think. once i realised that, DIAGNOSIS.TXT pretty much worked very well as intended as a diagnosis tool. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Unix Rookie" <unixrookie@yahoo.com> To: <samba@lists.samba.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 8:10 PM Subject: samba will not work for me... :/> I've had this problem since FreeBSD 4.3. This problem continues with my > FreeBSD 4.4 machine. > > I can't connect from my Win98se and Win2kPro machines to my FreeBSD 4.4Samba> server. > > I've tried it all... but still no luck. > > I've run smbd and nmbd manually with the "-D" parameter. I can connect > internally from my FreeBSD 4.4 box using "./smbclient //(hostname)/test" > > However, when I try to map "\\(hostname)\test" using Explorer... nothing > happens. > > I've also tried "net view \\(hostname)\test" under the dos prompt... butagain> I get nothing. > > When I run "testparm" everything seems to work out. > > I've followed the directions from both Sam's "Samaba Unleashed" and theO'Reily> book... but to no avail. > > Can anyone please help me getting samba to work with my Win machines?This has> become extremely frustrating. > > -Sameer > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > >--- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.282 / Virus Database: 150 - Release Date: 9/25/01
--- Storm Jumper <stormjumper@myrealbox.com> wrote:> one thing i pretty much realised was, > i think it almost totally missed out the fact that > in order for Samba to have its shares work with Win98 clients, > the user has to use a username on the Win98 machine, > that exists in the samba password file.I have done this... right now everyone is baffled on what to do here. This is really frustrating. -Sameer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com