From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 31 0:19: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3650437B405 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:18:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from FRANKENFURTER (user-112vp95.biz.mindspring.com [66.47.229.37]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA04890; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 03:18:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:24:25 -0800 From: Brian Sobolak X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.51) Personal Reply-To: Brian Sobolak X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <136102624596.20011031002425@mindspring.com> To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: samba problem... In-Reply-To: <20011031073253.89463.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20011031073253.89463.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Bsd, Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 11:32:53 PM, you wrote: BN> I know this isn't a place for Samba issues... but the people on the samba BN> mailing list... seem to be stumped too. BN> I'm having the same problem like before... BN> I installed Samaba from the sources on my FreeBSD 4.4 machine. BN> I made a simple smb.conf file. I manually ran smbd and nmbd with the "-D" BN> argument. I can use smbclient to connect internally from my FreeBSD box. BN> In addition, testparm, yields no errors. BN> But... for the life of me I cannot get my useless windows machines to BN> connect to the samba server. I've tried it all... i've tried mapping the BN> drives... using "net use e: \\froggie5\test" and "net view" from the dos BN> prompt. A few thoughts off the top of my head: 1. Any info in the logs, e.g. /var/log/smb.log or nmd.log? 2. Have you tried connecting by IP, e.g. map a drive to \? Helps to test connectivity 3. What version of windows are you running? -- Best regards, Brian mailto:sobolak@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message