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chris4amd
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 Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 5:22 am Post subject: (Samba) Windows users can't see me |
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I have been through the other Samba posts, but I can't figure out the problem. I have WINS enabled, master browser is not on...I have no clue what to do...
I can browse Windows' users files no problem though.
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Valen
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 6:07 am Post subject: |
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| Maybe you could post your config file. Some things I can think of off hand: smbd running? nmbd running? netbiosname option set? These are obvious, but sometimes we all forget to do things. |
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KraziKid
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| Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, one thing I can thing of (less the ones already mentioned) is that if you set it up for passwords, you must enter the netbios name in run, or IE, or explorer and log in before it will show up in My Network Places. In my case, when I set up my friends network using passwords, he needed to enter //FileServer in IE, and log in before it showed up. That's my 2 cents. |
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zhenlin
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| Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2003 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I think some sort of intelligence is required to find SMB computers, because my Windows computers can never find each other, although my Mac OS X 10.2 can find all of them. |
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xuttuh
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| Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2003 3:53 am Post subject: |
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one thing that I make sure of is that your samba server and your windows client are in the same workgroup. Not a must but it helps.
Another thing is if the option of "wins support = yes" is usually only used in a large multi subnet domain so that clents can connect to the server and find all to clients on that subnet. We were using at work but it has now been depricated b/c of Active Directory. I would suggest turning off this option if you are just serving behind your cable modem and not wanting other people to find you.
when you finally do see the smb computer you must create an account on the samba box to access the shares you create. It is as simple as
| Code: | adduser yourUserNameForWinBox
smbpasswd -a yourUserNameForWinBox
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you can ignore the errors that you recieve on the first run of smbpasswd b/c it has to create the smbpassword file.
Of course you smb.conf file would be appreciated so that we could help you with the problem.
You might want to make sure is that you samba daemon is running by | Code: | | /etc/init.d/samba start |
and to make it run at startup do a | Code: | | rc-update add samba default |
To find computers in your network by the netbios name open "My Network Places" and hit ctrl-f and a little side window should open up in w2k and XP
If you are running Win9x then there might be a different story if nothing works (encripting password and such)
Hope this helps.
Please tell us if this helps
Tim
EDIT: Forgot the find tip.
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chris4amd
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| Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2003 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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smbd is not running. I found out that on load it has been giving me this message:
| Code: | | lpstat: Unable to connect to server: Connection refused |
But nmbd is running. Any ideas?
Thanks for everyone's help so far.  |
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BlackBart
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| Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2003 3:48 am Post subject: |
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| try disabling printers in your samba.conf |
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