Hi!
I use realtek ethernet cards to connect 2 redhat linux 8 systems together to form a peer to peer network.
My stats for the first network card are ::
IP add: 169.254.156.54 Mask:255.255.0.0 Bind to MAC add: 00:50:2c:05:98:a9 Host IP add: 127.0.0.1 HostName:localhost.localdomain DNS Hostname:localhost.localdomain

The stats for the 2nd network card are::
IP add:169.254.61.56 Mask:255.255.0.0 Bind to MAC add: 00:50:fc:84:32:56 HostIP add:127.0.0.1 HostName:localhost.localdomain DNS Hostname:localhost.localdomain
I read up on the redhat documentation on samba,followed its instructions and configured the last part of the smb.conf file. The very last section of the file reads as follows after modification:
[sharename]
comment = My stuff
path = /home/share
valid users = ong ocy
public = no
writable = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0765
I only modified the last part of the smb.conf file cos the documentation shows only tis part.

So i logged in as root on both pcs,went to the terminal and typed
smbclient //169.254.61.56/home/share -U ong on one pc. However the following messages appeared:
added interface ip=169.254.156.54 bcast=169.254.255.255 nmask=255.255.0.0
error connecting to 169.254.61.56:139(connection refused)
error connecting to 169.254.61.56(connection refused)
connection to 169.254.61.56 failed
The other pc also showed a similar error message when i tried the connection on the other pc.

Do you know where the problem lies ? Is it because of the configuration of the ethernet cards and the smb.conf or the wrong commands typed ? Please help because i have spent a long time reading the documenation,tinkling with the settings and trying out different commands but to no avail. ( Btw,i think the connection works because i have tried out the ping command )
Please reply quickly if you can.........thanks!! :?:

Because the connection was refused before attempting to authenticate via username and password, you might want to make sure that you don't have the firewall software running. I'm not sure what all Linux has in this regard, but I know that there is a GUI configuration tool for this in RH8.0. I think it's in "System Tools." Just turn it off completely.

Since the IP addresses you're using aren't reserved for private use, I assume these computers aren't on the internet?

make sure smb are on for both boxes. If both of your machine is linux. Why are you using Samba? Samba is more for sharing between windoze and linux. Plus, I need more info. on your smb.conf

good catch gauge. I didn't even notice his IP aren't private IP. So, how's your RH8 project going?

Haha, good memory.

Still no functional master browser, but I'm about to give up on that and just make it a PDC. Hopefully that will be a workaround for it. I'm having an issue with a new hard drive that I want to use as a backup. There's a thread in the newbie forum if you wanna take a peek.

Those are link-local addresses which can be used like reserved address space as they are never advertised anywhere on the internet. RFC 3030 if memory serves

I would try using netbios names instead of IP addresses in the smbclient command, I couldn't make it work at all using IPs, names were fine, as long as NMB is resolving, host entries are good otherwise.

Could you translate this into newbie? Specifically the "link-local addresses" and the "RFC 3030" parts?

169.254.x.x addresses are defined in RFC3030 (surely I don't need to tell you what an RFC is?) as being reserved for anyone to use in the internet for things like wan addresses, which don't need to be advertised outside of a particular carriers network. Therefore multiple internet carriers can use this range without fear of conflict.

If you set MSWindows to use DHCP, and DHCP fails, the address you get will default to a 169.254.x.x address.

I was just saying that if you are natting out to the internet then 169.254.x.x is as valid a range to use internally as any.