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Samba still refuses to allow any machines to see any shares on it (either smbclient -L to itself, or using Windows). Testparm lists no problems. And yet it an still see my Windows machine using smbclient.
To be honest I’m bored of this now. I shouldn’t have to mess around with piddly text files etc. etc.
If it’s going to play in the Windows world, and compete with Windows machines then it had better get it’s bloody act together and make simple, trivial and rather essential things like this work without hours of intervention.
RBT often says Linux isn’t ready for the prime time. I’ve never thought it is, and stuff like this doesn’t change my mind.
Now, if you’ve read the above, and are thinking “idiot doesn’t know what he’s doing he’s probably mangled X,Y or Z”, please feel free to point me in the right direction, lend a hand etc. etc. All the helpfiles I’ve read so far have pointed to setting up smb.conf. That’s done. The problem, I don’t think, is there (I may be wrong). There are precious few help files telling me what to do when smbclient -L linuxbox yields:
added interface ip=192.168.10.2 bcast=192.168.10.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
session request to LINUXBOX failed (Not listening for calling name)
session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening for calling name)
So if you understand the above, know what I’m doing and have ideas, feel free to drop me a line, I’d appreciate some help right now :)
Posted by Phil on February 05, 2003 07:21 PM | Categories: Technology
Could be an access-denied (man host_access).
Try if acceess ALL: ALL solves it, then tailor it.
Could also be a domain naming problem.
Is your netbios-name the name that pops up when you issue "host 192.168.10.2"? This is a reverse lookup and might fail. Then, if it does, what ip do you see when issueing "host my-hostname". This is an forward lookup and might be incorrect.
Net name-ip pairs better match to prevent errors or long (failing on timeout) lookups when browsing the network.
Better keep the netbios and dns names of an ip the same.
Posted by: michael at January 28, 2004 4:02 PM
Hello,
Whilst I reallise that you know far more about Linux than I do, have you considered signing up to your local LUG. I'm sure there must be one in Oxford and you will probably find someone there that has already worked around this problem
I,m still trying but with Mandrake!
Posted by: etwell at February 5, 2003 7:57 PM