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Hello People, I do hope that this is not a really old problem that everyone is totally sick of hearing; it is a pain in the neck problem for me right now. I am just a Samba user. Help will be much appreciated 8-) I have been using Mandriva 2007 Linux and have installed Mandriva 2008; Samba has stopped working as described below. What is wrong? * The hardware is a local LAN controlled by an

Hi there - apologies for the long-ish mail! I recently performed a SuSE online update to my system, and since then Samba has refused to work properly. After the update, nmbd produces the infamous message: Aug 29 19:26:39 linuxserver nmbd[7208]: [2003/08/29 19:26:39, 0] nmbd/nmbd_responserecordsdb.c:find_response_record(235) Aug 29 19:26:39 linuxserver nmbd[7208]: find_response_record:

Hi, I installed Samba on the only linux server that we have on our network. On the Linux server, I was able to mount various shared directories from various windows machines ( we use windows 2000 ) So, seeing windows files on linux is not a problem. We also wanted to go the other way( seeing linux files on windows ) I searched on google but to no avail. I set the lmhosts file and still nothing

I have installed RedHat Linux 7.2 and tried to get Samba working. I have tried a lot, but I keep bouncing the fact that on the linuxserver it is not possible to lookup itself using: nmblookup linuxserver. All other machines in the network are ok. I can find them through the nmblookup easy. Broadcast is ok, subnet mask brought back to 255.255.255.0, in fact it seems that all is in place as I have

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

Hi, I've just updated (using yum under fedora 5) to the latest version of samba and am now encountering a major problem with samba. Whenever I attempt to access shares (don't have printers or other such non disk shares) the access fails (after prompting for password, and performing some level of authentication, it notes if no password is entered that Anonymous login successful).

PLZ HELPPP kinit is working fine, but "net join...." doesnt work here is the exact thing that i am trying to do : (running samba 3.0.26 hte preinstalled on fedora 8) (domain = shoubra.edu, pre-win200 domain = shoubra) ( or u can say : user4@shoubra.edu OR shoubra\user4) [root@linuxserver ~]# kinit user4 Password for user4@SHOUBRA.EDU: [root@linuxserver ~]# [root@linuxserver ~]# net

I just installed Icecast2 and the installation was a sucess. However, when I go to startup Icecast. It's reply is: [root@linuxserver bin]# ./icecast -c /etc/icecast.xml WARNING: You should not run icecast2 as root Use the changeowner directive in the config file [root@linuxserver bin]# <p>So then I go into the icecast.xml and alter the changeowner User to admin. Here is a bit from my

Hi, I am running into a problem that seems to occur to a lot of people, but I haven't yet worked out what the solution is. I have Samba version 3.0.3 installed in a Linux box (let's call it linuxserver) and I want it to run a Windows domain so that I can manage machines and users. I have a Windows box (call it windowsclient, running Windows 2003 Server) that I'd like to join to the

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'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

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

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

Hi there, I successfully connected a windows XP machine with my samba server (red Hat 7.3, samba version 2.2.3a) using SWAT. Problem is that the files on the share aren't writeable as I would expect. Instead, they're only visible as read only. What am I overlooking. Underneath my config file. # Samba config file created using SWAT # from linux (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2002/08/04

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?

Hi , I've some torubles with smb server provided with Debian 3.0 Woody - I can't see any machine in network neighbourhood, altought all machines are loging and mapping resources shared by server correctly. What exactly is needed to be installed with smb - any DNS or something like this? Maybe the question is not too clever, but when I've had my server on RH7.2 there was no such

I have Samba and about 40 WinXP Clientes running. Now I?m trying to find a way to deploy software (for example updates of E-Mail Client, Windows Patches) to my Clients. I was playing around with AutoIt and some "switch-user-tools" for windows, which really works but also is kind of complicated and time consuming. In my environment, every user got his own Logonscript on the Linuxserver

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

Hello all, Please send a Cc: to me in addition to the list. I am not subscribed and this will make it easier for me to follow the thread and reply. Thanks. My scenary is as follows: I have a Linux server with OpenSSH 3.7.1p2 installed and this server acting as an LTSP. Some PCs (all Pentium+ classes) acting as X-Terminals connects to this server via PXE boot --> DHCP --> booting