cant connect to xp machine smbclient not working

circuithead · 12-31-2005, 05:58 PM

I have an issue that I have wrapped my head around for a few days now.

Previously I was trying to connect to a mac machine on my network, and now I've somehow either screwed up samba, or messed up named and or network settings.

It's weird, cause I can connect into the machine from xp, but can't connect from fc4 to the xp machine.

I can see it in findsmb, but when I try to connect using smbclient it tries to goto an internet address instead.

I have not changed the smb.conf file, and I am on the internet just fine and dandy.

I made sure that the firewall is open , and like I said, I can connect into the linux machine without any problems.

edited: sorry, put in wrong section...

lleb · 01-02-2006, 11:33 AM

Code:

There are 3 basic steps to make a share mount from windows to linux.

1.  open a konsole

2.  mkdir (path to directory you want to share) example: /home/user/share

3.  smbmount //IP/windows_share /home/user/share

password:

what happens when you do it that way instead of via the GUI?

circuithead · 01-02-2006, 12:03 PM

it's not windows to linux.

it's linux to windows that's the problem.

teckk · 01-02-2006, 02:59 PM

That's how you mount a smb share.
Something like

Code:

mount -t smbfs //machinename/sharename /home/<usr>/mountingpoint

Example

Code:

mount -t smbfs //Dell123/shareddocs /home/sam/shared

Then you can browse the shared folder in a file mgr like Konqueror, Rox, Nautilus etc.

Don't forget to unmount it when you are done.

Code:

umount /home/sam/shared

lleb · 01-03-2006, 12:03 AM

oops, sorry had an error up there. it reads from windows to linux, but if you read the directions, it is from linux to windows. meaning the share is on windows and you are on linux. is that what you are trying to do?

circuithead · 01-13-2006, 04:40 PM

i'm on linux and I'm trying to reach a laser printer on windows. Used to be able to, but I messed up something or another when trying to network with a mac and now I can't access any shares on the windows machine (but did nothing to the windows machine, so I know its the linux box)

homey · 01-13-2006, 07:13 PM

It could be that your firewall script isn't loading the ip_conntrack_netbios_ns module. That's not a problem for me as I like to stay hidden from the netbios chatter but if you need to get to Windows shares, then you need to allow netbios traffic back through your firewall.

If you run the command: lsmod, you should see it listed somthing like this.

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
ip_conntrack_netbios_ns     2880  0

You can turn it on real quick with the command:
modprobe ip_conntrack_netbios_ns

If you want it on at every boot, you could put that into your firewall script.
As a side note, I think that smb4K is a really neat samba-client GUI tool.

circuithead · 01-13-2006, 08:42 PM

hmmm
i have this

ip_conntrack 56213 2 iptable_nat,ipt_state

but don't see a module specifically called that with netbios_ns.

tried kicking it in with modprobe and said module not found.

(i'm running fc4 btw)

Ed

homey · 01-13-2006, 08:50 PM

I'm running FC4 also. I can't see any Windows boxen unless I run the command: modprobe ip_conntrack_netbios_ns .

I have that line in my firewall script also. It's commented out as I don't need to get to any MS shares but for this forum.

uname -r
2.6.14-1.1656_FC4

circuithead · 01-13-2006, 10:28 PM

weird.

says:
FATAL: module ... not found.
im running a bit older of a version, but only cause my puter acts funny with latest updates.

i'm yumming now to see if there are kernel updates that will work for my smp amd 64 system.

homey · 01-13-2006, 10:54 PM

You may not need that exact mod as my Berry livecd works with out it. It does have a less restrictive firewall too.
Does yours work with the firwall off?

service iptables stop

circuithead · 01-13-2006, 11:30 PM

nope. i'm also not able to ping the netbios name of the xp machine either. (but can the ip address)

i'm wondering if the %T#@%#@ networkmanager somehow screwed up the dns client

what do you have as defaults for your resolution order?
i've played with them a bit, but they are currently set to:
hosts, NIS, DNS, LDAP.(i base this on webmin, which is what I normally use to tweak my system)

homey · 01-13-2006, 11:58 PM

I don't have NetworkManager installed. I went to a box which isn't using my network dns and was able to ping the xp box by address, not name. Still, when I ran modprobe ip_conntrack_netbios-ns , the xp box shows up in Smb4K .

That leads to the question...is xp firewall blocking you?

circuithead · 01-14-2006, 02:16 PM

nope, i don't use the microsoft firewall, I use zone alarms firewall, and I turned it off.

i can ping the ip though, I'm thinking there must be something wrong with netbios settings or something...isn't that samba controlled?

circuithead · 01-14-2006, 02:17 PM

btw, when I try to ping the name (XEON) it tries to ping xeon.com