compassman

Can you elaborate on your statement.

"BUT, I cannot connect to any Samba share. It is as if they were invisible."

What errors do you get?

AK

Just as a trouble shooting task, did you create that temp share above and try to connect to it? Also, you have a line that in your altairshare that reads username = joe, etc

Nuke that line out. Just keep the valid users line

I haven't tried adding /tmp to the share list. I will try this shortly. I have had some curious problems as well:

1) I can't ping SAMBA1 from the command prompt. The response is unknown host SAMBA1. From the XP client, I see SAMBA1 and there are connections below, but I get no response in a reseasonable time (5 minutes). BTW: The RH server gets its IP address from a DHCP server, so an entry in hosts is out of the question.

2) I ran smbclient on the RH machine yesterday and got the following:

smbclient -L windows1 -U larry
added interface ip=192.168.0.107 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Got a positive name query response from 192.168.0.106 ( 192.168.0.106 )
Password:

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
WEDNESDAY Disk
THURSDAY Disk
WEEKEND Disk
IPC$ IPC Remote Inter Process Communication

Server Comment
--------- -------

Workgroup Master
--------- -------
MS_NETWORK MHOWARD

I ran it again today, and got this:

smbclient -L windows1 -U larry
added interface ip=192.168.0.107 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Got a positive name query response from 192.168.0.106 ( 192.168.0.106 )
Password:

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
WEDNESDAY Disk
THURSDAY Disk
WEEKEND Disk
IPC$ IPC Remote Inter Process Communication

Server Comment
--------- -------

Workgroup Master
--------- -------

The XP machine MHOWARD is down, so it can't be a master browser. But other XP machines are up as well as the RH machine. Something should have been elected the master browser. Odder still is the Workgroup is missing. I can find that with nmblookup.

I am wondering is this is a problem with the version of SAMBA I am running - 2.2.7a-security-rollup-fix. I was running at some point in the past, though not really pushed. I am thinking that the update hosed something. Any ideas or comments?

I added a TEMP share and am getting the same thing. When I try to connect to the share with the XP Network Places wizard, I can see the Samba server, but I can't see the shares. When I use net use at the command prompt with the netbios name of the server and the name of the share, I get System error 53 has occured. The network path was not found. On the Win98 machine, my network neighborhood sees the share, but I get a no permissions error.

To make things even stranger, I cannot ping the Samba server by netbios name, eventhough XP sees it by this name.

Does anyone have an idea what is wrong here?

I'm not an expert in these matters. I fix problems eventually!

Have you tried to access your RH from one of your XP machines with -

net use z: \\nn.nn.nn.nn\xxxxxxx

where xxxxxx is one of your RH users and nn.nn.nn.nn is the ip address of your RH machine.

What response do you get?


My router acts as a DHCP server and I can configure it to a host name for different machines. It remembers it most of the time.

2.2.7a-security should be OK. If you think there is a problem uninstall/reinstall it. Take a backup of your smb.conf file first. Maybe start the smb.conf file from first principles.

AK

I tried to connect as you suggested. I tried net use * \\ip_address\username and got a system error 53 - network path not found error. I tried net use z: \\ip_addrress\home\username and got a system error 85 error - local device name already in use error.

I suggestion to uninstall/reinstall samba is a good one. I will backup smb.conf and its variants before doing so.

Not at my box at the moment but I would guess that

system error 85 error - local device name already in use

Could possibly be that you already have the drive letter Z allocated on your box?

Regards

Well I thought I sorted it!

It now looks like the problem was Webroot Spy Sweeper running on the XP Box. When it is running I get "Access Denied" when trying to map to my home directory on my slackware box. If I stop it and recycle the user I can map to slackware (assuming Spy Sweeper doesn't start automatically).

AK