samba - Mar 2003 - WAS: XP home -> Samba NOW: Must be other networking issues...

Thank you to all who helped me with this problem.  I am now convinced
the problem is not just something wrong in the smb.conf file, but must
be more of a port deny issue or something.

Couple of questions:

Do all XP computers (including XP home?) need the 'plain-password-hack'
to talk to a Samba server?  Remember XP Home is different than XP Pro,
XP Home can not join a domain, more like Win95/98.

I installed RedHat 8.0 with a "custom" setup and "medium"
security,
anyone know if that would cause this problem of not talking Netbios on
the network?  Where would I look for blocked ports, I would think
/etc/services, but those entries look normal, don't have anything
obvious they are blocked.

Interesting I added the Samba server's IP/name to my hosts and lmhosts
file on my XP Home computer, now I can see it, ping it by name
(couldn't before), but I have lost all the other computers in my
workgroup, I can still ping them by name, but they don't immediately
showup in the workgroup...odd.

For our purposes static IP's would be fine, just something to get it to
work.

I also added a account on the Samba server called "Mark", (already had
one called "mark"), I'm guessing Windows would export my username
as
"Mark" with a capital "M", that's probably what it's
setup as.  Maybe
that helped slightly also.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mark Brodis
fj40rockcrawler@yahoo.com

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> Do all XP computers (including XP home?) need the
'plain-password-hack'
 > to talk to a Samba server?  Remember XP Home is different than XP Pro,
 > XP Home can not join a domain, more like Win95/98.

As far as I know, no XP machines, or 2k or 98 need it for that matter. 
I haven't used that reg key in quite some time.  Definately not with any 
recent versions of samba, like 2.2.7, the one in RH8.  It's a server 
side requirement, that being that the server you're running defines 
whether or not you need it.  Make sure to turn encrypted passwords on in 
smb.conf.

 > anyone know if that would cause this problem of not talking Netbios on
 > the network?

Most likely, not 100% sure but I'm confidant that this isn't in the 
'safe protocol list'

 >Where would I look for blocked ports, I would think
 > /etc/services, but those entries look normal, don't have anything

/etc/sysconfig/iptables.  This file is cryptic and I believe backwards 
in the sense you're looking for.  That is, everything is blocked unless 
explicitly allowed.  Look for a config applet, I'm sure there is but I 
write my own firewall rules file so I'm not sure.  You can either allow 
137/139 or if you're running a router box, just set allow all on the 
internal interface.


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No need for the plain-txt hack as long as you are using encrypt passwords yes.
If you used medium security on RedHat, then that very well could be the
issue. Check your IPChains to see what is getting blocked. When I am forced
to use RedHat, I always do no security and then set up my IPChains manually.

Jim
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> From: samba-bounces+creole3=bellsouth.net@lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-bounces+creole3=bellsouth.net@lists.samba.org]On
>  Behalf Of
> Mark Brodis
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 1:37 PM
> To: samba@lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] WAS: XP home -> Samba NOW: Must be other networking
> issues...
>
>
> Thank you to all who helped me with this problem.  I am now convinced
> the problem is not just something wrong in the smb.conf file, but must
> be more of a port deny issue or something.
>
> Couple of questions:
>
> Do all XP computers (including XP home?) need the
> 'plain-password-hack'
> to talk to a Samba server?  Remember XP Home is different than XP Pro,
> XP Home can not join a domain, more like Win95/98.
>
> I installed RedHat 8.0 with a "custom" setup and
"medium" security,
> anyone know if that would cause this problem of not talking Netbios on
> the network?  Where would I look for blocked ports, I would think
> /etc/services, but those entries look normal, don't have anything
> obvious they are blocked.
>
> Interesting I added the Samba server's IP/name to my hosts and lmhosts
> file on my XP Home computer, now I can see it, ping it by name
> (couldn't before), but I have lost all the other computers in my
> workgroup, I can still ping them by name, but they don't immediately
> showup in the workgroup...odd.
>
> For our purposes static IP's would be fine, just something to
> get it to
> work.
>
> I also added a account on the Samba server called "Mark",
(already had
> one called "mark"), I'm guessing Windows would export my
username as
> "Mark" with a capital "M", that's probably what
it's setup as.  Maybe
> that helped slightly also.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Brodis
> fj40rockcrawler@yahoo.com
>
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