Two questions concerning our small (six machines) network around a Samba 2.2.3a server: - I cannot make the XP home boxes find the samba server. We wanted to replace some old desktops with new ones and bought them with XP home installed. While they can see the other win98 machines on the network - and these machines still work with the server - they do not see the samba server. I used the same settings as with Win98, same IP, same gateway, same workgroup, only that XP does not accept a username identical to the machine name. Is it right that only XP pro works with Samba? Anyone found a workaround? - I cannot get Samba to run on two interfaces even if I put both IPs into the smb.conf. On this network, there is one machine with a BNC Connector I would like to keep (its a long cable through down three floors I do not want to touch). What did I miss out? Thanks for any help! Markus Vorpahl ________________________________________ http://www.epost.de - das Kommunikationsportal der Deutschen Post
Markus, if you have applied the SignOrSeal registry hack, you should be able to get your XP Home system to see Samba shares. You will be prompted for a user name and password to access these shares. You will never get your XP Home system to become a member of your Samba domain. Since you cannot authenticate to the Samba domain using an XP Home system, there are no credentials to send to Samba to verify permissions to the share and you will have to provide a user name and password to access them. Don Zajic -----Original Message----- From: samba-bounces+donald.zajic=verizon.net@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces+donald.zajic=verizon.net@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Markus Vorpahl Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 5:10 AM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] XP Home and Samba? and: two network cards? Two questions concerning our small (six machines) network around a Samba 2.2.3a server: - I cannot make the XP home boxes find the samba server. We wanted to replace some old desktops with new ones and bought them with XP home installed. While they can see the other win98 machines on the network - and these machines still work with the server - they do not see the samba server. I used the same settings as with Win98, same IP, same gateway, same workgroup, only that XP does not accept a username identical to the machine name. Is it right that only XP pro works with Samba? Anyone found a workaround? - I cannot get Samba to run on two interfaces even if I put both IPs into the smb.conf. On this network, there is one machine with a BNC Connector I would like to keep (its a long cable through down three floors I do not want to touch). What did I miss out? Thanks for any help! Markus Vorpahl ________________________________________ http://www.epost.de - das Kommunikationsportal der Deutschen Post -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Markus Vorpahl wrote:> Two questions concerning our small (six machines) network around a Samba > 2.2.3a server:I would recommend to go for upgrade (2.2.8a)> > - I cannot make the XP home boxes find the samba server. We wanted to replace > some old desktops with new ones and bought them with XP home installed. > While they can see the other win98 machines on the network - and these machines > still work with the server - they do not see the samba server. I used the > same settings as with Win98, same IP, same gateway, same workgroup, only > that XP does not accept a username identical to the machine name. Is it > right that only XP pro works with Samba? Anyone found a workaround?In case you are using Samba as PDC, then its as Don said. If you want to know why, some info is here: http://samba.kn.vutbr.cz/samba/devel/docs/html/domain-member.html Mentioned Sign-or-Seal registry patch is in Samba packages as WinXP_SignOrSeal.reg file.> > - I cannot get Samba to run on two interfaces even if I put both IPs into > the smb.conf. On this network, there is one machine with a BNC Connector > I would like to keep (its a long cable through down three floors I do not > want to touch). What did I miss out?In case you want span one workgroup/domain across two net segments (-> two IP subnets) then setup WINS server if you do not have it already. Send more info - what do you mean by - "do not work" ?> > Thanks for any help! > > Markus Vorpahl >Dan
Dan, Don,>if you have applied the SignOrSeal registry hack, you should be >able to get your XP Home system to see Samba shares. You will be >prompted for a user name and password to access these shares.I applied the SignOrSeal registry change manually, but still no shares. Until now, in smb.conf there was security = user set, so there was no domain logon by the WIN98 stations either. Reading the text in http://samba.kn.vutbr.cz/samba/devel/docs/html/domain-member.html: if I only want to share shares, files and printers, let people read and write, is domain logon really needed? Aparently, until now there was none. [global] workgroup = BAERSCH netbios name = server security = user os level = 65 ... In fact, the problem might be related to the fact that the running win98 stations are still connected to the BNC ethernet card in the server, without any WINS server installed, whereas I need to connect the XP stations to another card. Perhaps I should upgrade to 2.2.8a, and then set up a WINS server - any suggestions where I find documentation on this? Thanks a lot - Markus ________________________________________ http://www.epost.de - das Kommunikationsportal der Deutschen Post
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Jonathan Johnson wrote:> On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, John H Terpstra wrote: > > > If both network cards are installed in your Samba server, then each > > network card must be configured for a different subnet. For example: > > > > Card IP Address Network > > --- ---------- --------------- > > eth0 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.0/24 > > eth1 192.168.1.0 192.168.1.0/24 > > > > To pick a nit, 192.168.1.0 is not a valid IP Address; it is the network > address. 192.168.1.255 would be the broadcast address; everything in > between would be valid.Yep.> > You, of all people, should know that, John. :-)Yep, sorry - too much pressure to meet deadlines, too little attention to details! :) - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org