Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:27:45 -0500 (EST) From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: samba problem... Message-ID: <20011031082548.Y18544-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> In-Reply-To: <20011031073253.89463.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com>
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Do you have the following defined in the global section of smb.conf? netbios name = workgroup = server string = Also, unless your windows machines are using nmbd as their domain controller, or are using separate domain controller, the FreeBSD machines will have to be under the same workgroup AND subnet. (ie, all under 192.168.1.*) Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com AOL IM: CrackedBoy Running FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386 8:25AM up 5 days, 20:53, 1 user, load averages: 1.04, 1.02, 1.00 On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > I know this isn't a place for Samba issues... but the people on the samba > mailing list... seem to be stumped too. > > I'm having the same problem like before... > > I installed Samaba from the sources on my FreeBSD 4.4 machine. > > I made a simple smb.conf file. I manually ran smbd and nmbd with the "-D" > argument. I can use smbclient to connect internally from my FreeBSD box. > In addition, testparm, yields no errors. > > But... for the life of me I cannot get my useless windows machines to > connect to the samba server. I've tried it all... i've tried mapping the > drives... using "net use e: \\froggie5\test" and "net view" from the dos > prompt. > > I can't get through to my Samba server... > > ports 137-139 are in my /etc/services file. > > I can connect to SWAT from my windows machine... > > But... I cannot my windows machines to see my FreeBSD box on the LAN. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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