Samba - windows conflict

JustMe · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 45

I emerged and configured samba and it's working, except for one thing:

The most of my computers show up in samba tree except for a few. I have two network cards (eth0 and eth1).
The first is connected to my general network and the second to a windows computer. This windows computer doesn't show up in the samba tree. I can however manually access this computer using smb://SERVER/

This is my samba config:

[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = SERVER
security = share

interfaces = eth* lo
bind interfaces only = yes

local master = yes

KayZee · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:34 pm Post subject:

There could be a lot of things to check, but try this.

Look at your TCP/IP settings for all the machinces. You want to be sure that netmask and broadcast addresses are set correctly for all of them. Network browsing I think can use the broadcast address so if its inconsistent you may not find a machine.

If this is a small how network, you likely have something like

Addresses: 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.254
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Broadcast 192.168.1.255

JustMe · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 45

He KayZee, thanks for the reply

my gentoo says the following:
IP: 192.168.0.254
Broadcast: 192.168.0.255
Netmask: 255.255.255.0

mu windows says:
IP: 192.168.0.253
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
but where can i find my broadcast?

KayZee · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:55 pm Post subject:

For Windows, open a command line prompt.

Issue the command

JustMe · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 45

I already checked the ipconfig /all

It doesn't give a broadcast reply