From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 24 15:13:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp07.wxs.nl (smtp07.wxs.nl [195.121.6.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6365337B423 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:13:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from Alex.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp07.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GS28HL01.3BG; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 00:12:57 +0100 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 00:12:56 +0100 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: Alex X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <15427295408.20020225001256@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> To: "Jason Halbert" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Samba Question In-Reply-To: References: 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 Jason, Sunday, February 24, 2002, 11:10:14 PM, you wrote: JH> Hi All: JH> I have been trying to get Samba working with no luck. I installed it from JH> ports. I edited the smb.conf.sample and changed the values to what I think JH> match my network. I am trying to get my FreeBSD box on my simple JH> peer-to-peer Win2k and WinXP network. I changed the "workgroup" and JH> "server string" to my workgroup name and what I wanted the FreeBSD box to JH> be called. I'm not able to connect to the other Windows boxes and they JH> can't see the UNIX box. The UNIX box has two NICs in it; one public and JH> one private. All the boxes are on the public network and nothing is on the JH> private (it's there for future NAT). JH> Does any one know of a good straight forward method for getting Samba JH> working with a simple peer-to-peer network? JH> Thanks very much JH> ---- JH> Jason Another couple of stupid question. Did you rename/copy the file to smb.conf? And if you have a firewall did you temporaly disable it, to make sure it poses no problems? Also could you post the file? Its easier to check with the source. -- Best regards, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message