I've studied the books, searched the list archives, etc. I suspect there is someone who can just tell me one thing to tweek, so I humbly beg your advice. Situation: I am playing with/learning Linux, intending to replace our two company Netware servers sometime in the next 6 months. At home, I have an NT4.0/SPC PDC, an NT4.0/SP6 docked laptop, and an HP server with RH7.1 or 7.2 (2.4.?? kernel) loaded. I added Samba & SWAT, fought with the box for a while (the Red Hat default firewall setup keeps Samba from working ... grrr ...) and was finally able to connect the laptop successfully to a share on the server. I have essentially the same configuration on the network at our company, with the addition of about 15 Win95/WIn98 boxes and the two Netware 4.1 boxes on the network. All the Win95 boxes can see the Samba server just fine, the NT PDC can see it, but my desktop NT4.0/SP6 box cannot. I can ping it, it can ping me, I can run SWAT, but SMBCLIENT cannot see my workstation and my workstation cannot see SAMBA. It is just my machine that cannot connect. All the Windows & NT boxes have TCP/IP, NETBEUI, NWLink IPX/SPX, and NWLink NETBIOS loaded. The Netware boxes are running only IPX. At home, I may not have the NWLink stuff loaded; I don't recall. I wiped out and reinstalled all the protocols on my workstation. No joy. I have not tried to bring the laptop from home to see if it can see the SAMBA server at work. Probably something I should do tomorrow. I even downloaded Ethereal and tried to look at the network traffic, but I might as well have been looking at Chinese for all the good it did me. The only thing that did seem understandable was a transaction where my workstation asked for the address of the computer at the SAMBA server's IP address and did receive a response with the server's MAC address. So at that level they are talking. Any ideas why just one system cannot see the SAMBA server? Really generous folks feel free to call on my toll free # 877-690-6300. Thanks, Geo. Anderson
On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 12:03, George@durequip.com wrote:> I have essentially the same configuration on the network at our company, > with the addition of about 15 Win95/WIn98 boxes and the two Netware 4.1 > boxes on the network. All the Win95 boxes can see the Samba server just > fine, the NT PDC can see it, but my desktop NT4.0/SP6 box cannot. > > I can ping it, it can ping me, I can run SWAT, but SMBCLIENT cannot see my > workstation and my workstation cannot see SAMBA. It is just my machine that > cannot connect. All the Windows & NT boxes have TCP/IP, NETBEUI, NWLink > IPX/SPX, and NWLink NETBIOS loaded. The Netware boxes are running only IPX. > At home, I may not have the NWLink stuff loaded; I don't recall.This sounds to me like a wins problem. Do you have a wins server running on your network? If so, does your machine have the correct wins server address? Kohei
> -----Original Message----- > From: Kohei Yoshida [mailto:kyoshida@mesco.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:24 AM > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: Newbie (groan... !) Client Problem > > > On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 12:03, George@durequip.com wrote: > > I have essentially the same configuration on the network at > our company, > > with the addition of about 15 Win95/WIn98 boxes and the two > Netware 4.1 > > boxes on the network. All the Win95 boxes can see the > Samba server just > > fine, the NT PDC can see it, but my desktop NT4.0/SP6 box cannot. > > > > I can ping it, it can ping me, I can run SWAT, but > SMBCLIENT cannot see my > > workstation and my workstation cannot see SAMBA. It is > just my machine that > > cannot connect. All the Windows & NT boxes have TCP/IP, > NETBEUI, NWLink > > IPX/SPX, and NWLink NETBIOS loaded. The Netware boxes are > running only IPX. > > At home, I may not have the NWLink stuff loaded; I don't recall. > > This sounds to me like a wins problem. > > Do you have a wins server running on your network? If so, does your > machine have the correct wins server address? > > Kohei >Hmmm ... I don't think so. No WINS server. There is an internet nameserver identified of course, same on my home network. Both networks are full time connected to the internet -- DSL at home, ISDN at work. To clarify, it is not that I cannot connect to the share. I cannot even see the SAMBA server in Network Neighborhood or via NET VIEW from my NT box but I can see it just fine from the three or four other computers that I checked, including the NT PDC. From the Linux box, SMBCLIENT can see the shares on the NT PDC and the Win95/98 boxes too. i.e., everybody but me is working! :-( Geo.