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Everyone, I am hoping that someone can help me. I have been trying for several weeks to get Samba working to no avail. I have consulted many online help files including the ones located at http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/DIAGNOSIS.html, browsing.txt that comes with samba, http://us2.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/Samba24Hc13.pdf, and a few others. I have even posted a previous message, which

Hi everyone, I'm trying to set up a Windows XP Pro client to connect to a Samba server (version 2.2.8) on a Redhat 8.0 linux box, but have been having trouble for the past 3 days. I have gone through Troubleshooting Samba at [http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/Samba24Hc13.pdf] but I can't figure out how to fix the problem. I suspect that the broadcast address may not be the same on both

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello: My name is Ruben and I am from Elche (Spain) We are trying to setup a Samba server in our network. Our server is Suse Linux 7.3 Professional, with this version of samba: at:/ # smbd -V Version 2.2.1a at:/ # nmbd -V Version 2.2.1a I think that smbd is running OK becouse we can access to the server using its IP from the outside. But Server

Hi everyone , Recently upgraded to 2.2.5 on RH73 and suddenly my Roaming profiles did stop working and on top of this my NMBD is giving me constant errors!!!! when i try nmblookup -U 127.0.0.1 _SAMBA_ name_query fail to find name _Samba_ then i have tried : nmblookup -B 192.168.123.1 MYSERVER and then : nmblookup -U 127.0.0.1 MYSERVER 192.168.123.1 MYSERVER<00> looks fine after this i

Hi, After lots of struggle and rtfm I finally got most things running, except for 'nmblookup' and 'net getlocalsid' on the BDC. I'm not new to Samba, but plenty more to learn. Here's the setup in summary: system pdc is the PDC on subnet 192.168.0.0, running SuSE10.1, LDAP master, wins server, domain master browser, no iptables; system bdc is the BDC on subnet 192.168.2.0,

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 have a pretty simply home LAN with a Linux box (Mandrake 9.1) and 2 XP boxes. The workgroup is named UNIVERSE and the machines are earth (Linux), voyager (XP) and starbase (XP). (smb.conf has security=user). Voyager can browse over to \\earth\share no problem. Recently I connected starbase to my LAN using a wireless router. When on starbase I cannot browse to \\earth\share. When I do so I

Hi list, I'm working on a RH 7.2 non intel system which I'd like to do printserving for windows clients. I'm using samba 2.2.5-1 installed via RPM. Ideally the print administrator would manage access to the print-queues remotely from his win2k box. Am I understanding correctly, that if I hand-off user/group checks to winbind in my nsswitch.conf, that NT groups can be enforced

I'm configuring Samba on a Red Hat Linux 7.2 server, for access from a Windows 2000 client. My server name is DEMENTIA, and it's IP address is 192.168.0.5. I've confirmed with ifconfig that the server's broadcast address is 192.168.0.255. I'm having a problem with NMB that I seem to have isolated to the following symptoms - After starting NMBD, I can lookup the server name

Folks, I am stumped! I have followed every tech tip I could find and I am still unable to complete my SMB installation. Specifically, I fail Test 4 and Tests 9 and 10. I believe the problem has something to do with the NMBD configuration. Below are the parameters of our system. Any help is greatly appreciated. Brandon Stauber brandon@inetevents.com 310-889-9264 [Please respond

Hi Everyone, >From windows 2K, machine I could see Samba server but I can't get its share. I tried to follow the instruction given at http://samba.planetmirror.com/samba/ftp/docs/Samba24Hc13.pdf to resolve the problem. nmblookup -U 127.0.0.1 _SAMBA_ and nmblookup -B 10.10.255.255 real-samba-server-name fails for me but nmblookup -U 127.0.0.1 real-samba-server-name

Hello. I just recently upgraded to redhat 9 from 7 & everything went smoothly except samba. Using the DIAGNOSIS.txt I get to step 3 (I think) & execute the following command nmblookup -B servername _SAMBA_ the return is thus querying _SAMBA_ on 127.0.0.1 name_query failed to find name _SAMBA_ the text advises that nmbd is not installed correctly. Well I'm using xinetd

Hi, I have a strange problem with a domain member server. The Samba3 domain master/wins server can not lookup the host. Workstations that are trying to connect to the server appear to be having trouble finding it (network path not found). nmblookup problemserver querying problemserver on 192.168.0.255 name_query failed to find name problemserver rigel:/var/lib/samba# nmblookup otherserver

Hi, I've a got kind of weird problem using nmbd. At least, I think is is weird because this problem isn't dealt with in any documentation. I got my nmbd up and running, when I issue the command 'nmblookup -U 10.0.0.1 __SAMBA__' (my IP is 10.0.0.1/255.0.0.0) I get a correct response: 'querying __SAMBA__ on 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.1 __SAMBA__<00>' But when I use a

I have literally beat my brains out trying to get my XP machine to talk to my samba server on my linux machine. I was hoping you could offer some advice. Any help would be greatly appreciated. MY SETUP: XP machine: Hostname - winxp 2 ethernet cards - one going to my starband satellite modem one going to my linux machine IP address - 192.168.0.1 (the

I have FC1 + samba 3.0.1. From Nautilus I can't browse into smb:/// to view any available domain/workgroup. But I can go directly to any computer with smb:///conputer-name. When I tried to call 'nmblookup -M -- -' I get: querying __MSBROWSE__ on 192.168.0.255 name_query failed to find name __MSBROWSE__ #01 Does anyone know what's wrong? PS. Initially I had Samba 3.0.0 and

Hi, I'm trying to setup a Server only for Subnet Browsing. The smb.conf on the server looks like: [global] workgroup = some.work.group server string = hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/24 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24 192.168.3.0/24 192.168.3.0/24 hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0 interfaces = eth1 eth1:1 eth1:2 eth1:3 eth1:4 bind interfaces only = yes wins support = yes domain

I have literally beat my brains out trying to get my XP machine to talk to my samba server on my linux machine. MY PROBLEM: The samba server (version 2.2.7a) is running on Redhat Linux 9.0. I can successfully connect to the XP machine and copy files from the XP machine to my Linux machine. But I cannot access my linux box from my XP machine (The samba server shows up in the browse list on

Background: I have 2 SMB Servers; one is configured to be the Preferred Master (fserver), the other (upstairs) is configured to just share some files. I want it to connect and update the WINS configuration on the Preferred Master. Configuration files for both servers are attached. Also worth mentioning that both the 'fserver' and 'upstairs' reside on the same network. Some

I have a new SentOS 5 system and have been having problems with Samba. I had been able to access my test share but not my home share. Attempting to re-set thigns as describe by the "webmin configure samba" info resluted in being able to see everything but the home shares. I don't know if I could have copied or written to these other directories - didn't try. Continued