Hi there,

I have just set up samba on a RH7.1 box and I am having trouble with the Windows NT4 clients resolving the hosts name. The name of the computer and it's alias appear in the network neighborhood but when they are clicked on I get the error "The network path was not found". I know that samba is working because if you specify the IP address in the run box you get the shared drive no problem. EG

\\192.168.0.10\share This works

\\linuxserver\share This does not work

So I can see the shares and map them to drive letters but I just cannot access them through Network Neighborhood or by using the computer name!

What have I done wrong?

Thanks


Here is a copy of the smb.conf file:-


# Samba config file created using SWAT
# Date: 2001/11/12 10:56:41

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = ZANDSLONDON
netbios name = DEVSERV1
netbios aliases = atlasonline
server string = Development Server
security = SHARE
encrypt passwords = Yes
hosts equiv = /etc/hosts.equiv
ssl CA certFile = /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
local master = No

[data1]
comment = Data1
path = /data1
writeable = Yes
guest ok = Yes

[data2]
comment = Data2
path = /data2
writeable = Yes
guest ok = Yes

[dev_areas]
comment = Recall Development System
path = /data2/dev_areas
writeable = Yes
guest ok = Yes

couple of quickies...

1) can you ping it by name?
2) do you have a WINS server?
3) do you have the following ports open on your Linux box?
137/tcp
137/udp
138/tcp
138/udp
139/tcp

lemme know

Try adding the following to each of your share descriptions in your SAMBA config file:

browsable = yes

Thanks for the suggestions

No I cannot ping by name,
We have no wins server,
Yes the ports listed are open,

I also added the browsable flag and also tried a reboot but there is no change.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

Paul

Do you get an access denied message (or something similar)?

i always get that stupid error, i just gave up personally, but that's not really a solution ehh? What i do, only on a smll scale mind you, is to use a windows batch file to map the network drive, first using a 'net view' then a 'net use' to make x: or something. works flawlessly, but it's certainly ungraceful...

Create an LMHOSTS or HOSTS file on the WNT clients with a listing for the Linux box.
(do both if you want)

Then add the WNT client names and addy's to the Linux box's /etc/hosts file.

go kevin

thats exactly what i was going to suggest, create those files.
i am able to do what you want to do, but i don't think i am using both of those files, i know they are there though.

Hi,

I had already added the Linux computer name to the windows computers host file in /winnt/system32/drivers/etc. This allowed me to ping the linux box using the name.

I searched for LMHOSTS and found one in the same directory as the hosts file called LMHOSTS.SAM. I edited this one but there was no change. I then renamed it to LMHOSTS and it all started working!

I am now going to update this file on all the winnt boxes.

Thanks for all the help.

Paul

right-o. the file must be renamed, since the .sam extension denotes it is only a sample file. I only mention this cuz it bit me in the butt earlier.