This seems to be common enough problem. I've used a variety of methods (command line as well as utilities like LinNeighborhood) to mount XP shares on my RedHat 8.0 running Samba 2.2.7. I get consistent problems the other way around. Despite a couple of shares on my Linux partition, I am just unable to do get to it. Network Neighborhood shows my Linux/Samba server but no shares, nor can I explicitly map the share to a Win XP logical drive. While troubleshooting by reading Sam24hc13.qxd (an extract from an excellent book, I might add), I found that I run into trouble trying to use "nmblookup -B <broadcast address> <Samba machine name>". The same command works fine if I give it the names of my two XP machines. I somehow suspect this is the main reason why I'm having troubles elsewhere. Does anyone have an answer? Srinivas Murty
Can you post your smb.conf? -- Christopher Barry Manager of Information Systems InfiniCon Systems http://www.infiniconsys.com -----Original Message----- From: Srinivas Murty [mailto:srinivas.murty@verizon.net] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 9:39 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] Can't reach Samba shares from Win XP Pro This seems to be common enough problem. I've used a variety of methods (command line as well as utilities like LinNeighborhood) to mount XP shares on my RedHat 8.0 running Samba 2.2.7. I get consistent problems the other way around. Despite a couple of shares on my Linux partition, I am just unable to do get to it. Network Neighborhood shows my Linux/Samba server but no shares, nor can I explicitly map the share to a Win XP logical drive. While troubleshooting by reading Sam24hc13.qxd (an extract from an excellent book, I might add), I found that I run into trouble trying to use "nmblookup -B <broadcast address> <Samba machine name>". The same command works fine if I give it the names of my two XP machines. I somehow suspect this is the main reason why I'm having troubles elsewhere. Does anyone have an answer? Srinivas Murty -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Bradley W. Langhorst
2003-Mar-25 14:09 UTC
[Samba] Can't reach Samba shares from Win XP Pro
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 21:39, Srinivas Murty wrote:> This seems to be common enough problem. I've used a variety of methods > (command line as well as utilities like LinNeighborhood) to mount XP > shares on my RedHat 8.0 running Samba 2.2.7. I get consistent problems > the other way around. Despite a couple of shares on my Linux partition, > I am just unable to do get to it. Network Neighborhood shows my > Linux/Samba server but no shares, nor can I explicitly map the share to > a Win XP logical drive.> > While troubleshooting by reading Sam24hc13.qxd (an extract from an > excellent book, I might add), I found that I run into trouble trying to > use "nmblookup -B <broadcast address> <Samba machine name>". The same > command works fine if I give it the names of my two XP machines. I > somehow suspect this is the main reason why I'm having troubles > elsewhere. Does anyone have an answer?no nmblookup (I think) should only work with machine names not IP addresses. I recommend you run through diagnosis.html in the samba distribution to figure out your problem brad> > Srinivas Murty-- Bradley W. Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com>
Srinivas, If you did a standard RH8 install and enabled the firewall, it may be blocking access to the shares. To confirm this, just drop the security level to none and see it the share appears under the Samba server name on the XP system. Good luck, Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Srinivas Murty [mailto:srinivas.murty@verizon.net] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 9:39 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] Can't reach Samba shares from Win XP Pro This seems to be common enough problem. I've used a variety of methods (command line as well as utilities like LinNeighborhood) to mount XP shares on my RedHat 8.0 running Samba 2.2.7. I get consistent problems the other way around. Despite a couple of shares on my Linux partition, I am just unable to do get to it. Network Neighborhood shows my Linux/Samba server but no shares, nor can I explicitly map the share to a Win XP logical drive. While troubleshooting by reading Sam24hc13.qxd (an extract from an excellent book, I might add), I found that I run into trouble trying to use "nmblookup -B <broadcast address> <Samba machine name>". The same command works fine if I give it the names of my two XP machines. I somehow suspect this is the main reason why I'm having troubles elsewhere. Does anyone have an answer? Srinivas Murty