Hi Samba Mailing list Many thanks for the help as I had problems with my first Linux session and couldn't get the Linux box on to the Windows network. I seem to have managed to get things working by adding "netbios name webserver" to the config file. Then creating and adding a password to a user account using "smbpasswd -a NEWUSER" The original config (delivered with SuSE) had no such entry and didn't mention it - seems to be important though.... Suddenly I could see the Linux box and can send data to it in the new user's directory. It appears in my workgroup MJB called WEBSERVER and it is possible to work in the home/NEWUSER/ directory. My favorite tip was from Christoph:>A) as a beginner you should use swat to edit smb.config >A.1) open yast2, choose yast2 module, choose network basics, choose the >icon with the traffic lights. >Choose : yes start inet ... >Choose the line with "swat" in front and make it aktive, save changes. > >Now swat is reachable through http://yourcomputer:901 locally and >remotely. >Use your root password to connect.Works great and allows an inexperienced user like myself to make fast progress in a user friendly environment. Least favorite tip:>Learn bash, vi, sed, grep, cat, less, find, cd, ls, chown, chmod, locate,and cut.>All of these, except vi, have good man pages (man ls or man bash). Thereare>books on bash, vi, and sed, and they are needed.Good way to freighten anyone back to the Windows world..... What I can not yet do is transfer data from the Linux box to a Windows PC from the Linux machine - I don't know how to view the network !!!! (In Conquerer there is a LAN view symbol but it says "No protocol" when I click it.... Must be an easy way somewhere and will keep on poking around. Cheers Mark
Mark Butcher wrote: "What I can not yet do is transfer data from the Linux box to a Windows PC from the Linux machine - I don't know how to view the network !!!!" Previous posts suggest you are using SuSE. If so, one way to look at the network in a friendly environment is to go to Yast2's "Install/Remove Software" and search for "LinNeighborhood". Install it. It should be in Internet Tools now. Run it and click Add for each Windows computer you want to add to the network. By typing in the name of the computer and clicking Query it should fill in the rest of the info like IP address, so you don't have to know it. Click on one of the windows computers that shows up and you should get a list of available drives. Click on a drive and then click MOUNT. You will likely have to mount it as root, so check off that box and enter your root password. It defaults to mounting the drive in /home/[linuxusername]/mnt/[windowscomputername]/[windowsdrivename]. Now if you were in Konqueror or whatever and wanted to save a file to that windows computer, it should work no problem. If any of this doesn't work it might be because I have NFS up and running, so if the above doesn't work (I think it will) then investigate installing an NFS server and NFS client on your linux box. (Although I think that should only affect communication between linux boxes not linux/windows, but I don't know much more than you!) Brian
Hi Brian I followed your instruction and it nearly worked. I can see the Windows PCs now. Win NT computers however do not show me their shares but Win 98 computers do. When I mount a shared drive there are no error messages and the mounted share is displayed as a resource. Unfortunately it is not in the extected directory (my default is root/mnt). I have tries adding it with SMB account. I do not seem to be able to mount it as root bacuse the dialog box doesn't respond to clicks on this option.... I have a feeling that something is not working correctly when mounting (log file displays the commands but no error messages) and so have not yet checked the NFS support. Do you see anything that I could be doing incorrectly ? Cheers Mark ******** original message ***************** "What I can not yet do is transfer data from the Linux box to a Windows PC from the Linux machine - I don't know how to view the network !!!!" Previous posts suggest you are using SuSE. If so, one way to look at the network in a friendly environment is to go to Yast2's "Install/Remove Software" and search for "LinNeighborhood". Install it. It should be in Internet Tools now. Run it and click Add for each Windows computer you want to add to the network. By typing in the name of the computer and clicking Query it should fill in the rest of the info like IP address, so you don't have to know it. Click on one of the windows computers that shows up and you should get a list of available drives. Click on a drive and then click MOUNT. You will likely have to mount it as root, so check off that box and enter your root password. It defaults to mounting the drive in /home/[linuxusername]/mnt/[windowscomputername]/[windowsdrivename]. Now if you were in Konqueror or whatever and wanted to save a file to that windows computer, it should work no problem. If any of this doesn't work it might be because I have NFS up and running, so if the above doesn't work (I think it will) then investigate installing an NFS server and NFS client on your linux box. (Although I think that should only affect communication between linux boxes not linux/windows, but I don't know much more than you!) *********************************************
narsimha.kulkarni@bt.com
2003-Jan-28 13:08 UTC
[Samba] Beginner feeling a little better now
am gettin SMBserver failed. am attaching the testparm dump pl help me out -----Original Message----- From: Brian [mailto:suseuser@rurnt.com] Sent: 27 January 2003 19:38 To: Mark Butcher Cc: Samba Subject: Re: [Samba] Beginner feeling a little better now Mark Butcher wrote: "What I can not yet do is transfer data from the Linux box to a Windows PC from the Linux machine - I don't know how to view the network !!!!" Previous posts suggest you are using SuSE. If so, one way to look at the network in a friendly environment is to go to Yast2's "Install/Remove Software" and search for "LinNeighborhood". Install it. It should be in Internet Tools now. Run it and click Add for each Windows computer you want to add to the network. By typing in the name of the computer and clicking Query it should fill in the rest of the info like IP address, so you don't have to know it. Click on one of the windows computers that shows up and you should get a list of available drives. Click on a drive and then click MOUNT. You will likely have to mount it as root, so check off that box and enter your root password. It defaults to mounting the drive in /home/[linuxusername]/mnt/[windowscomputername]/[windowsdrivename]. Now if you were in Konqueror or whatever and wanted to save a file to that windows computer, it should work no problem. If any of this doesn't work it might be because I have NFS up and running, so if the above doesn't work (I think it will) then investigate installing an NFS server and NFS client on your linux box. (Although I think that should only affect communication between linux boxes not linux/windows, but I don't know much more than you!) Brian -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba