11/09/05 I am/have been trying to get Samba working on my network for the past 5/6 weeks. All I want to do is connect two pc's so that I can access the necessary files between the two systems. First of all I know the two systems can talk to each other as I setup the to lan cards using WXP pro not using SAMBA. Since I can copy file between both systems I know that the connection is good and it should work using another OS. Having read about SAMBA and how it would/could work with SUSE linux and Windows I thought that I would setup the network using SAMBA. On both of my PCs I installed SUSE Linux 9.2 (downloaded from WWW and burnt to CDs). The reason I am using SUSE linux is it was the only version of linux that I found that had a 64bit and a 32 bit version. I installed the 64bit version on my newpc and the 32 bit version on my oldpc (oldpc and newpc are what I am using for host names). Everything appears to be working I downloaded some documentation on how to setup SAMBA and there is about 10 items that are given to test the machines connectivity. I can ping the oldpc from the newpc; I can ping the newpc from the oldpc. I enter the other commands using smbnetwork? (I think the command names is) and I get back the results as shown in the example replies. So everything appears to be connected. So now I want to introduce the partitions on my hard drives; and this is where it will not work The necessary directories have been setup, the Files/Partitions to share have been setup in the etc/smb.conf file using YaST2 and everything appears to be in place. I run the command "testparm /etc/smb.conf" and I get no errors of any type. So on the newpc I enter the command (the following is all on one line the email message box makes it look like two lines.) mount -t smbfs //oldpc/tmp /media/remote/mnt/tmp -o password=validrootpassword, username=root The system seems to hang for about a minute, I get back to the root prompt and no errors of any type where given. So when I do a ls -al /media/remote/mnt/tmp the system takes the command it again hangs for a while and then I eventually get the message there was Input/output errors and I do not see any output for the ls. That is as far as I get trying to connect my two PCs. These machines are for my own home usage and no other person will be using these PCs. I am using root until I get everything working and then I will use a regular non-root user setup. But I cannot find any documentation that explains what is happening and how to fix the the problem that I have just described. Thank you in advance for any answers to fixing these setup. Roger
Hi Roger, You wrote on Thursday, 10 November 2005 11:50 a.m.:> mount -t smbfs //oldpc/tmp /media/remote/mnt/tmp -o > password=validrootpassword, username=root The system seems to hang > for about a minute, I get back to the root prompt and no errors of > any type where given.Bear in mind that smbfs is actually part of the kernel, it is not part of the Samba project. Perhaps you could try using smbclient to test it first, eg. smbclient //oldpc/tmp -U root This assumes that root has already been set up as a Samba user on oldpc using smbpasswd. Cheers, Paul PS could you please use a few more line breaks in your emails? It makes it much easier to read. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------- Paul Eggleton Ph: +64-9-4154790 Software Developer Fax: +64-9-4154791 CJN Technologies Ltd. DDI: +64-9-4154795 http://www.cjntech.co.nz Email: paule@cjntech.co.nz ---------------------------------------------------------