I've had a working samba setup on debian testing, viewing shares from my
winxp box, for quite a while. I've just set up another box as a wireless
access point, and am bridging the wireless and wired networks. When
connecting via wireless (i.e. through the bridge) I'm unable to get any
samba connectivity. I can ping, ssh, use imap etc fine through the
wireless, but not samba.
Here's the output from nbtstat -A 192.168.0.64 (my samba box, called
"debian") (after refreshing the cache):
Wireless Network Connection:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.0.66] Scope Id: []
NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table
Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
DEBIAN <00> UNIQUE Registered
DEBIAN <03> UNIQUE Registered
DEBIAN <20> UNIQUE Registered
..__MSBROWSE__.<01> GROUP Registered
WORKGROUP <00> GROUP Registered
WORKGROUP <1D> UNIQUE Registered
WORKGROUP <1E> GROUP Registered
MAC Address = 00-00-00-00-00-00
Someone on the debian-user list suggested setting up my samba box as a
wins server, which I did (added wins support = yes): here's my smb.conf
file:
# Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
workgroup = WORKGROUP
encrypt passwords = true
passdb backend = smbpasswd guest
wins support = yes
[homes]
browsable = no
writable = yes
[downloads]
comment = Download area
path = /home/downloads
browsable = yes
writable = yes
valid users = james
When I reconnect via the wired interface on my xp box (I'm trying to
migrate to wireless!) , everything works. I've got the same IP on the
winxp box when both wired and wireless.
Can anyone help me? Thanks very much in advance
James
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