Can't see samba server on network
I have a network with the following pc's on it
P1 Box running smoothwall, This is currently configured as normal firewall DCHP server. It is also currently using a modem to access the internet and this connection is shared with the other pc's on the network. P2 Box running SUSE 9.0 - used for messing around in linux P2 350 Compaq with Suse 9.0 configured as a Samba & NFS server Toshiba Laptop - Windows XP AMD XP2000 box - Dual Boot Before I attttached the smoothwall box, the network was set up with static addresses and worked fine. But with DCHP configured, my windows machines cannot find the samba server. I cannot figure out where the process is falling over, is it at the windows end or the linux end. Do I need to configure the server as a static IP or is there a way to maintain the dynamic addressing. Am I right in thinking that it can be done using the domain name rather than with IP's, if so if anyone can offer any helpful hints or point me in the direction of any tutorials, it would be greatfully appreciated. |
There shouldn't be a problem using dhcp but I would usually reccomend using a static address for a server so that you know what it is when you want to configure it remotely.
Which machine is acting as your master browser? |
Mater browser is the samba box, OS level = 65
I have attached a copy of my smb.conf file. 192.168.0.1 is the DHCP box, this is set to allocate a fixed IP address to the samba box 192.168.0.150. [global] domain logons = no socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY public = yes unix extensions = Yes map to guest = Bad User time server = Yes domain master = yes netbios name = THOR wins server = 192.168.0.1 security = user log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log writeable = yes allow hosts = 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.150 local master = yes veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/ os level = 65 workgroup = ASGARD path = /windows add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /dev/null -s /bin/false %m$ server string = encrypt passwords = yes preferred master = yes ;; ldap server = 127.0.0.1 [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /windows valid users = %S browseable = yes read only = No |
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