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Date:      Mon, 25 Feb 2002 00:12:56 +0100
From:      Alex <FreeBSD@cybertron.tmfweb.nl>
To:        "Jason Halbert" <jason@jason-n3xt.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Samba Question
Message-ID:  <15427295408.20020225001256@cybertron.tmfweb.nl>
In-Reply-To: <JAEKLKAIMBIFJACKGDCAOECBCAAA.jason@jason-n3xt.org>
References:  <JAEKLKAIMBIFJACKGDCAOECBCAAA.jason@jason-n3xt.org>

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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


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