Win XP doesnt see samba share, but can connect to it.

zollodav · 04-24-2003, 05:14 PM

k, cool, now add this to your smb.conf

lm announce = yes
lm interval = 120

and then to the whole restart nmbd and smbd and lets see if that solves the automatic issue. are you having any problems seeing the shares when you connect to the samba server?

bripage · 04-24-2003, 05:28 PM

Nah .. when I connect using \\192.168.2.150 it works just fine. Restarted teh service, still not visible. I tired net view, and it cant see it in that either.

zollodav · 04-24-2003, 05:35 PM

do you have SWAT on the linux box?

bripage · 04-24-2003, 06:16 PM

Im not sure. how do I check?

zollodav · 04-24-2003, 06:18 PM

open up a web browser, and enter http://localhost:901

bripage · 04-24-2003, 06:45 PM

damn... well I guess I was going to have to configure x windows sooner or later on this machine.. Ill do that and get back to yah with the answer k

bripage · 04-24-2003, 11:04 PM

you know what. I have just found out that the current version of Samba doesnt support XPs net neighborhood. Samba 3 will though.

zollodav · 04-25-2003, 01:43 AM

go to this thread, I haven't tested out samba 3 yet it's still alpha at this time, but this is the fix.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=56693

bripage · 04-25-2003, 01:55 AM

yeah, that way does work. If stupid gates could hop on the linx band wagon.. there wouldnt be any compatibility issues. For now it works but I need something that will allow me to have security. I guess Ill just have to use this unitl good ole version 3 comes out. Thanks man. You have been extremely helpful.

Now if only I can remember to not delete the file I wrote all your feedback too... I should be fine

zollodav · 04-25-2003, 07:37 PM

take care man, there are ways to maintain security with it, but it's not with xp home, otherwise this whole headache would go away.

wlfdgcrkz · 04-26-2003, 02:52 PM

i was having a similar problem. M$ was not detecting the samba server beacause: the logon.bat (dos formatted) file was misssing from /usr/bin/?/? ... or the path to the logn.bat deliniated in smb.conf was erroneous. this was my deal.