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Hi, Samba world: It is my first time to use samba to share a folder from a solaris 7 to our windows 2000 clients. After I have the following, I could not see the unix share point. Your help is highly appreciated! 1) Install samba 2.0.5. 2) done the following: Edit /etc/services and make the following changes. Immediately after the line which reads: sunrpc 111/tcp rpcbind

Dear List I have installed RHL 7.1 and installed samba as described in FAQ. When I try to access through Windows 98(client) Network Neighbourhood, it shows "Linux Server" but i could not able to access, as following error appears: \\Linux Server is not accessible The computer or sharename could not be found, make sure you typed is correctly, and try again. I just

I recently reinstalled Linux on my fileserver (RedHat 7.2), which was running Samba (v 2.2.1a). Now, trying to reconfigure Samba back to its original state (silly me didn't keep a copy of the conf file) I've run into a problem. My win98 machines can't find the Samba server by name, but they can by number. By this I mean: On a Linux desktop, smbclient -L //marvin/ works as

Hello all! I've readed somes docs and I found nothing about the following trouble : I can't connect to my sbmd server using the following : '\\MYRH72SMBDSERVERNAME\'. I always got a error message like : 'Share name could not be found, make sure you typed it correctly....' , but if I utilize \\10.x.x.x\ all is working fine (I don't want to access using the \\IP\

Hi all, I am using samba 2.0.9 server. The windows can see netbios name but it can't access this name. If i connect by ip address, it is OK. And windows can access this name after that. Please help me solve this problem. And my smb.conf file [global] workgroup = SS_DOMAIN netbios name = tonycomp server string = tonycomp security = user encrypt passwords = yes [public] comment = Public

I am having a problem with some Windows 95 PC's . I had Samba 2.0.5 installed on a Sun system with Solaris 6, and a local network of PC's with W95 and W98, and everything was working fine. I then installed a new server with Solaris 8, and changed the IP addresses on the network, and the W98 PC was fine as was one of the W95 PC's, but 2 W95Pc's cannot see the Samba share, if I do

Hi All, I'm sure i'm doing something stupid, but when I search for my Linux File Sharing Server (called 'linuxserver') by right clicking on My Network Places, Search for Computers, and typing in the computer name, the Search returns nothing, however, if I search for it via IP address, it finds the machine w/out any problems at all. Can someone tell me what i'm doing

I just want to set up a folder on my Linux 7.2 running samba 2.2.1a-4. I have looked at the smb.conf over and over. Cannot find out why my share is not showing up. I just want users on my domain to browse the network and read the folder. I am on an NT domain and the furthest i got was seeing the workgroup testgrp on my network neighborhood. But when i click on the workgroup i get an access

I've set the perms on the vlumes as wide open as possible.. 2k and Win98 give different errors. When trying to copy a local folder (With files in it) to the smaba share I get: You may not be able to to access files created in the folder \\samba-server\software\new folder\scripts Do you want to continue Yes No Win2k says "Cannot copy FOLDERNAME: The specified network name is

I can run nmbd successfully, but smbd dies almost immediately when I run it, the smbd.log file has the message "bind failed on port 139 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0.". When I do a netstat -an | grep 139, it shows that tcp is listening on port 139. How do I resolve this conflict between tcp and smbd?

I've got Samba 2.2.2 installed and running fine on one of our servers (RS/6000 AIX 4.3.3 and using NT authentication), however, when I do Test #4 (from docs/textdocs/DIAGNOSIS.txt) it looks like this: npssrv{root}#nmblookup -B npssrv _SAMBA_ querying _SAMBA_ on 173.148.200.113 name_query failed to find name _SAMBA_ The test said I should get back the IP address of our samba server. I got

I'm in the process of setting up Samba 3 on a Fedora core machine with a second machine being an XP machine. I can ping from either machine to the other. The command smbclient -L netbiosname on the linux machine gives me a "Connection to netbiosname failed On the XP machine I've enabled Wins over TCP IP but the command nbtstat -n on the XP machine only lists itself while the

I have installed samba 2.2.2 successfully on my linux box and have tested it perfectly on linux itself (smbclient //hostname/tmp). However, when I tried "net use x: \\hostname\tmp" on my win2000 professional laptop, it gave me "There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request". What should I do? Thanks, Zhong

Hi all, I have aproblem with Samba copying (unfortunatly I'm new to samba so my skills are fairly limited). I have a sun box (solaris 8) with samba 2.2.2. Copying from sun to a nt server is fast (as good as you would expect) however, copying from the nt server to the sun box is slow (files copy normally, then slow to a complete halt then copy very slowly). We cannot see anything on a

Hi everyone, I'm still debuging my installation of samba. in /textdocs/DIAGNOSIS.txt under test 7, it suggested that - you have shadow passords (or some other password system) but didn't compile in support for them in smbd How do I check if my shadow passwords isn't compiled in support for them in smbd, if they are not, how do I go about compiling them? - you enabled password

I set up my Linux box with Samba 2.x I can see my Windows 98 and Windows 2000 boxes fine - but none of the Windows boxes can see the Linux box in Network Neighborhood. I added the ip's AND created a user / pw in Linux to match my windows credentials. However, it will not work. Am I missing something?

Hello folks, I am running Samba 2.2.3a, on a RedHat 7.2 server. So far everything seems to be working fine. I can access shares, print from Windows clients, but I cannot change the password from the Win98 client. When I try, Windows tells me that the old password is incorrect. Here's my smb.conf file # Global parameters [global] ;basic server settings workgroup =

Hi list I have a problem. Running Samba 2.2.1a on a Redhat Linux 7.2 kernel 2.4.18 Client is a Microsoft Windows2000pro I can connect to all shares but I can not see my server in network neighborhood. I can see the the clients but not the server??? What have I missed? Some configuration I can test Thanks H?kan

Please forgive is this has been posted, but without a good search function the archives are hard to search. Have a home network - two laptops XP PRO, one Linux RH 7.3 and one NT box. All in the workgroup named workgroup. I would like to rid myself of the NT box as all it does is spool a printer and a USB Hard drive for backup purposes. Network hooked to a Linksys Cabel Modem router, So NAT

Hi, I have a problem connecting my Windows98 to the Samba server. The Linux computer comes up in the "Network Neighborhood" control panel, but when I double click on the icon, W98 asks for a password for the "\\machine name\IPC$" resource. But my password will not me accepted. I have logged in as user "root" with a given password on both computers. When I set