samba - Dec 2002 - Stumped at "Network Neighborhood", Samba server is vi sible, but it's path can't be found ...

Jamie,

Have you crated a user and a smbpasswd for the user that you are connecting
using "Network Neighborhood?"

-Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie Risk [mailto:jamie_risk@yahoo.ca]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 4:05 PM
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] Stumped at "Network Neighbourhood", Samba server is
visible, but it's path can't be found ...


Hi all,

I can see the RH7.3 linux box I've configured with the latest
Redhat RPM samba package in the Windows 2000 network
neighbourhood, but when I double click the W2000 computer
icon I get the message

 "\\Linuxbox is not accessible,
  The network path was not found."

The network is a small switched lan, sadly with only one unix
box (RH7.3) and a mixture of Windows2000 and 98 machines. The
domain name is that of our service provider "bellnet.ca", and
the recently introduced Linux box is configured with the host
/domain name pair "LinuxBox.bellnet.ca".

Anyway, I can ping the either way, (from Windows to Linux and
back again) but in order to do so, I must specify the IP
addresses of the machines. I suspect the DNS resolution isn't
working, but I'm mislead by the fact the linux box's name
("Linuxbox") appears as an icon in the network neighbourhood.
Clearly, I don't know what's going on.

Like I wrote, I can see the icon for the linux box in my
network neighbourhood which is drawing me to naive/confusing
conclusions about the validity of my setup.

Help ?

Jamie






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Hi Bob, thanks for responding ...

Yes; at least if your asking about the unix side of things. Through some
magic
that I did a few days ago I piped the password file for linux into a
password
file for samba, then initialized the samba account of interest.  A
decription
of what I did is here:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-samb
a-configuring.html

On the windows side of things, I'm trying to access the share as different
user.
I'm assuming (?) that I'll be asked for the appropriate passwords when
the
connection
is being established.

Pardon my ignorance, but I'm still under the impression I'm faced with a
DNS
resolution problem since I can't ping the Linux box from my W2000 console
using anything OTHER than the quad IP address.


"Owens, Bob" <bowens@navtech.com> wrote in message >
Jamie,
>
> Have you crated a user and a smbpasswd for the user that you are
connecting
> using "Network Neighborhood?"
>
> -Bob
>

Bob had responded (again, thanks Bob) with two suggestions.

1. Try connecting with the same user and password as on the
   unix side. I set up a new W2000 user account with name
   and password to match. When I click on the Network
   Neighbourhood, I still get the "Network path not found."
   described earlier.
2. Add an entry to the W2000 hosts file so that I could ping
   without having to resort to using the IP quad address. I
   appreciate taht I can do this, although our network uses
   DHCP, and I've no idea how to represent that in a hosts file.

I suspect that Samba is configured perfectly, and that my
problem is based on basic network connectivity.

Would those responding to this thread agree that I
should be able to ping the Linux box using it's NetBios
name?