Owens, Bob
2002-Dec-13 19:25 UTC
[Samba] 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Jamie Risk
2002-Dec-13 19:35 UTC
[Samba] Re: Stumped at "Network Neighborhood", Samba server is visible, but it's path can't be found ...
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: 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 areconnecting> using "Network Neighborhood?" > > -Bob >
Jamie Risk
2002-Dec-13 20:11 UTC
[Samba] Re: Stumped at "Network Neighborhood", Samba server is visible, but it's path can't be found ...
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?
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