 | | | isn 't samba just supposed to *work*? | isn 't samba just supposed to *work*? 2005-12-20 - By Craig White
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On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 09:39 -0500, Thom DeCarlo wrote:
> Ok, I've got another newbie issue. I'm trying to set up a samba server on my
> new Linux (RHEL3) box. I think I've got it set up properly, but my WinXP
> computer cannot find the Linux box. (ping works, but nothing else does. Even
> ftp gives a weird error about "must authenticate before setting USER".) The
> WinXP box is part of a workgroup (mylittlegroup), not a domain. I've set the
> smb.conf file with "security = user" and "workgroup = mylittlegroup".
>
> A "cat /var/log/samba/nmbd.log" shows many messages that look like this:
>
> [2005/12/19 16:22:45, 0]
> nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:find_domain_master_name_query_fail(353)
> find_domain_master_name_query_fail:
> Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name MYLITTLEGROUP<1b> for the
> workgroup MYLITTLEGROUP.
> Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup.
>
> And every once in a while, there is a line that says my Linux box is now a
> local master browser.
>
> I've gone through all the online documentation that I can find. Can anyone
> tell me what might be going wrong here and how to fix it?
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on samba server, try adding 'wins support = yes' and restarting samba.
On WinXP computer, add the ip address of the samba server to Wins server
(this is done in various ways, preferably through dhcp server) but you
can probably just add it manually...
Start -> Settings -> Network and Dial Up Connections -> Select the
appropriate network adaptor and then -> Properties -> TCP/IP -> Advanced
-> WINS server -> Add the ip address of the Samba server.
WINS should make Windows network browsing functional. If you don't care
about Windows network browsing...
You can also add entry to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\LMHOSTS
i.e.
192.168.1.1 SAMBA_SERVER_NETBIOS_NAME
(see the LMHOSTS.sam sample file)
or you could simply open up an explorer window and enter the ip
address...
\\ip_address_of_samba_server
Craig
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