From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 30 10:53:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA29456 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:53:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA29450 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:53:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA10502; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:46:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd010495; Thu Oct 30 18:46:36 1997 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:44:53 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Alain Fabry cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Problems connecting to SAMBA In-Reply-To: <01BCE51D.EDC51620@mars.coserve.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Samba is known to work on FreeBSD (presently one of it's primary development platforms) it will be a config problem.. do your workgroup settings agree? do you have a WINS server? this is a setup problem.. I suggest you ask the samba mailing lists.. julian On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Alain Fabry wrote: > I'm running SAMBA on a FreeBSD 2.2.2 and can connect from the FreeBSD machine to itself using smbclient. > Whenever I go to another win95 machine, I cannot connect to the name of the FreeBSD machine. > When I do a net use j: \\FreeBSD-ip-address\Homedir, I get a response and it asks for a password. > For some reason, it does not accept the password and gives me that the network name cannot be found. > Also, the machine name does not appear in the win95 network neighborhood. > What could be the problem and how can I solve it? > Thanks, > > Alain > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Alain Fabry > Senior LAN Admin > The University of Texas - Pan American (COSERVE) > 1201 W. University Dr. > Edinburg, Tx 78539 > > >