Hello from a complete beginner,
I have a P4 laptop running Windows XP Home (SP2), with a Netgear WG511T wireless PC card, and I'm trying to connect it to a P3 running Linux (Knoppix 3.6 installed to the hdd). There is a Netgear WGT624 wireless router connected to the Linux box, as well as an Epson R210 USB printer. I had everything running with XP on the desktop (now Linux) box. I thought I'd try Linux...
I have attempted to set up Samba to allow sharing between the two computer. So far I haven't had much success -
I can access the laptop from the Linux box, but I can't access the Linux box from the laptop;
The Linux box doesn't appear in Network Neighbourhood on the laptop but the laptop appears under LinNeighbourhood on the Linux box;
I can ping both computers from each other (192.168.0.1 for the Linux box and 192.168.0.3 for the laptop, and the router is 192.168.0.2 - all IP addresses are fixed);
I can print to the printer from the Linux box;
I can't print to the printer from the laptop (I can't add it under the XP printers option).
Here's my smb.conf file:
;
; /etc/samba/smb.conf
;
; Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux
;
; Please see the manual page for smb.conf for detailed description of
; every parameter.
;
[global]
# Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
load printers = yes
guest account = nobody
invalid users = root
; "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
; in this server for every user accessing the server.
security = user
; Change this for the workgroup your Samba server will part of
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = %h server (Samba %v)
; If you want Samba to log though syslog only then set the following
; parameter to 'yes'. Please note that logging through syslog in
; Samba is still experimental.
syslog only = no
; We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog. Everything
; should go to /var/log/{smb,nmb} instead. If you want to log through
; syslog you should set the following parameter to something higher.
syslog = 0;
; This socket options really speed up Samba under Linux, according to my
; own tests.
socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096
; Passwords are encrypted by default. This way the latest Windows 95 and NT
; clients can connect to the Samba server with no problems.
encrypt passwords = true
passdb backend = smbpasswd guest
; It's always a good idea to use a WINS server. If you want this server
; to be the WINS server for your network change the following parameter
; to "yes". Otherwise leave it as "no" and specify your WINS server
; below (note: only one Samba server can be the WINS server).
; Read BROWSING.txt for more details.
wins support = yes
; If this server is not the WINS server then specify who is it and uncomment
; next line.
; wins server = 172.16.0.10
# If we receive WINS server info from DHCP, override the options above.
include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
; Please read BROWSING.txt and set the next four parameters according
; to your network setup. There is no valid default so they are commented
; out.
; os level = 0
; domain master = no
; local master = no
; preferred master = no
; What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
; to IP addresses
name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
; This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.
dns proxy = no
; Name mangling options
preserve case = yes
short preserve case = yes
; This boolean parameter controlls whether Samba attempts to sync. the Unix
; password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the
; /etc/samba/smbpasswd file is changed.
unix password sync = false
; For Unix password sync. to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following
; parameters must be set (thanks to Augustin Luton
; <aluton@hybrigenics.fr> for sending the correct chat script for
; the passwd program in Debian Potato).
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
; The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package
; installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are
; working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba.
; message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s' &
; The default maximum log file size is 5 MBytes. That's too big so this
; next parameter sets it to 1 MByte. Currently, Samba rotates log
; files (/var/log/{smb,nmb} in Debian) when these files reach 1000 KBytes.
; A better solution would be to have Samba rotate the log file upon
; reception of a signal, but for now on, we have to live with this.
max log size = 1000
obey pam restrictions = yes
; Some defaults for winbind (make sure you're not using the ranges
; for something else.)
; winbind uid = 10000-20000
; winbind gid = 10000-20000
; template shell = /bin/bash
; ISOLATIN1 with euro sign
unix charset = iso-8859-15
display charset = iso-8859-15
dos charset = 850
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
; By default, the home directories are exported read only. Change next
; parameter to "no" if you want to be able to write to them.
read only = yes
; File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
; create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
create mask = 0700
; Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
; create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
directory mask = 0700
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
guest ok = no
read only = yes
write list = knoppix
[printers]
printer admin = knoppix
comment = All Printers
browseable = no
path = /tmp
printable = yes
public = no
writable = no
create mode = 0700
; A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others.
;[cdrom]
; comment = Samba server's CD-ROM
; writable = no
; locking = no
; path = /cdrom
; public = yes
;
; The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the
; cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain
; an entry like this:
;
; /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0
;
; The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the
;
; If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD
; is mounted on /cdrom
;
; preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom
; postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom
Any help would be appreciated.
