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09-17-2005, 11:21 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Sep 2005
Posts: 8
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Samba/winxp
Hello.
I have installed suse 9.1, have made sure that samba is installed.
I have then ran YaST2, entered the netowrk services section and clicked on samba client. Next I entered my workgroup name and clicked finish.
I next went to network browsing, chose windows network and received the following error:
Unable to find any workgroups in your local network.
I can ping both machines from each pc.
But I can't browse resorces on either.
Any ideas how I can get these machines communicating?
I am behind an adsl netgear router that functions as a dhcp server.
I've had linux for 3 days and love it.
Any assistance would be greatly appriciated, thanks.
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09-17-2005, 12:40 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Distribution: Slackware 9.1,RedHat 9, Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core 2, Redhat Enterprise Linux AS v. 3, Mac OS 10.3.3
Posts: 16
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Temporary workaround
I'm running into a similar problem with SuSE 9.3 and WinXP. Still not able to browse easily, but here's a workaround to try till we figure it out.
In Konqueror go to smb://<ip address of the windows machine>/<share name> and you should be able to get at your files that way. I did at least. After having it up and running for a couple of days, I can see the SuSE box in the workgroup from the windows machine, but get the same "No workgroups found" error on browsing from the SuSE box. When I try to map from the Windows to SuSE it won't authenticate, and all I get in log.smbd is an uninformative "connection reset by peer."
I'll keep researching and post if I find anything.
Good luck.
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09-17-2005, 04:02 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2004
Distribution: SUSE
Posts: 16
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Try this:
- check the target machine for a firewall
- check the target machine for VPN (most VPN I have used runs a stateful firewall by default)
- check browing machine for firewall (most likely problem as SUSE firewall blocks everything by default)
If any machine has a firewall up, I would suggest first taking down the firewall and determining if both computers can speak without any barriers between. If you find this to be true, you will need to tell the firewalls to open up the appropriate port for Samba. This is fairly easy in SUSE 9.3 - you can select Samba as an exception using YAST.
if this doesn't seem to be a firewall issue, then
- try to browse target computer with problem machine in windows (eg. work with what you know) to find whether this is a problem on the target side, or whether it is a problem on the sending side.
- If you still cannot browse the target computer, then you should check that it set up for sharing correctly.
- If you can browse, then it is the problem machine, and it is software related. Try checking your network and samba settings, updating bugged packages, etc.
I have rerely had trouble w/ samba save where firewalls or improper settings are involved.
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09-17-2005, 04:06 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2004
Distribution: SUSE
Posts: 16
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Also, as you are behind a router - if that router has a good hardware firewall, you may consider not using software based firewall packages.
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09-18-2005, 01:46 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Sep 2005
Posts: 8
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Thanks guy's. Im able to connect to my windows share using smb://<ip>/<sharename>
That will be sufficent.
Thanks again.
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