hi all -

i've switched to SuSe 9.0 on my laptop, and it's been awesome - battery monitor works well, all hardware is automatically set.

some problems however - i'm having difficulty getting my dell optical usb wheel mouse to work, i twiddled in YaST and got it partially working - it only scrolls down, not up. biggest problem i currently have is getting samba set up. i have a 4 computer network, 2 computers run windows XP, one runs win enterprise server 2003. i need to be able to access 2 computers and transfer all my files onto this laptop before i can switch my other desktop to suse. i've tried some things with samba in yast, but whenever i go to smb:\ i keep getting an error that says:

"Internal Error
Please send a full bug report at http://bugs.kde.org
libsmbclient reported an error, but didn't specify what the problem is. This might indicate a severe problem with your network - but also might indicate a problem with libsmbclient.
If you want to help us, please provide a tcpdump of the network interface while you try to browse (be aware that it might contain private data, so don't post it if you're unsure about that - you can send it privately to the developers if they ask for it)"


also, would i be able to run microsoft visual .NET or C++ under wine, or should i go ahead and buy Win4Lin?

thanks

Have you tryed:
smb://[server name]/[server share]
( note the '//' instead of the '\' )

yes, it says there's a "Malformed URL - smb//" i know that smb isn't fully set up... i've tried to set it up - the internet works, but the network doesn't work.

Are you running samba as a daemon or as a service?
(NOTE: Can't spell)

daemon is:
nmbd -D
smbd -D

service is, some enties in your inetd.conf and service files (in /etc)

i believe daemon. i'm not so sure. in RH9 and Mandrake, i had no problems setting up samba. with suse 8.2 and now, 9.0, i still havent been able to get samba to work correctly for networking, only to acess the internet. i have a router and a usb hub (for usb devices like printers, scanners, digicam).

Have you test to see if Samba can look at your other machines' shares?
(smbclient -L [pcname] -U [username])

You should verify Samba is installed correctly first... I've been reading lately that in most distros, pieces of it aren't there (I don't know how accurate that is either)

thats strange... i did what you said and entered smbclient -L J-server -U Administrator, and i got this:

linux:/home/JDOGG # smbclient -L J-server -U Administrator
added interface ip=192.168.1.105 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Got a positive name query response from 192.168.1.101 ( 192.168.1.101 )
Password:
Domain=[MSHOME] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790] Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
J-Server-HD Disk
ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin
C$ Disk Default share

Server Comment
--------- -------
J-SERVER
LAUREN Lauren's Comp
LINUX Samba Server

Workgroup Master
--------- -------
MSHOME LAUREN


but when i use Konqueror to access the network, the error message is still:

Internal Error
Please send a full bug report at http://bugs.kde.org
libsmbclient reported an error, but didn't specify what the problem is. This might indicate a severe problem with your network - but also might indicate a problem with libsmbclient.
If you want to help us, please provide a tcpdump of the network interface while you try to browse (be aware that it might contain private data, so don't post it if you're unsure about that - you can send it privately to the developers if they ask for it)

and konqueror doesnt accept smb:// - it's smb:/

there's one other thing - i've set up the lisa daemon, but it didnt seem to do anything helpful for my case.

I have also problem with samba resources in konqueror (sometimes it works, sometime not)

So I tried Linneighborhood (great tool, you can broese the network, mount win-resources...) should be on the DVD.

philipp

Just curious but, are you using the samba that came built with the SuSE9.0 distro?
I had a few problems with that package myself, and I run SuSE on about 7 diff boxz.
I eventually went back to doing it the manual way, because A) I was more familiar/comfortable because of all the samba work in the past, and B) its much easier to open the smb.conf in a text editor (vi) than it is to click your way thru yast modules and screens.

I also have SuSe 9.0 installed and running. I setup the samba server and the samba client. I can access the SuSe linux box from my windows box just fine. I can transfer files back and forth. However, I cannot see the windows box from the SuSe linux box.

Oh and how did you get the lisa daemon running???

-=Marc=-

well, yes i'm using samba that came with the suse 9 OS. samba in RH9 and Mandrake worked just fine, just not in suse 8.2 or 9.0... like marc, i can access my laptop from windows enterprise server 2003 and XP, but not the other way around. i liked how samba worked in RH9 and mandrake, i'd like to continue using samba... but if i have to use something else, i will.

also - still having problems with my mouse wheel not scrolling up... it only scrolls down.

You might try installing from Source Code... I have Slackware 8.0 installed with Massive updates including Samba 3.0.2a...

It works From Linux to Windows and From Windows to Linux... So far, all OSs can connect either way... (Only tried Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, and Linux) -- Took me a while to get SWAT/PAM working right with Samba, but the rest was mostly default =)

Just a thought =)

I figured out that communication from the linux box to the windows box work just fine on the command line using smbclient. The GUI front end in Suse 9.0 is fussy though.

Then you might try updating the GUI part and see if that fixes it =)
(I can't help with that part though... I barely have a GUI on my box and no space =(