From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 22 23:29:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4BF314FF1 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 23:29:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Received: from TurnAround.com.au (dhcp64.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.64]) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA19343; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:35:55 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Message-ID: <372012D7.5A79A1E0@TurnAround.com.au> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:27:35 +1000 From: Andrew Johns Organization: TurnAround Solutions P/L X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dan Mahoney Jr." Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Samba and Browsing. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Dan Mahoney Jr." wrote: > > Okay, I've tried to the best of my ability to follow the docs exactly on > this one, but for some reason, nmbd refuses to do WINS. > > The situation: > > A BSD box and a win95 box, bsd box with Samba, connected via thin ether. > > Win95 box set with WINS of freebsd box (192.168.1.1) > > All IPs statically assigned. > > For the record, I can connect to the shared resource using > > net use J: \\192.168.1.1\home > > I can do an smblookup on all machines in the local net (from the bsd box), > and it correctly gives the winbox's ip (although it gives 127.0.0.1 for > the local host, not 192.168.1.1, which I am unsure of...A shame I can't > get another unix system to query it) > > And I can use explorer and telnet, etc fine on the winbox to get to the > outside world, so I know the network is doing its job. I thought for a > while that maybe my guest user was bad, so I changed it to my own login > (it's also been tried as nobody and danm). The docs did not say what kind > of password, permissions, or shell to have for this user (or so grep would > make it appear). > > Help is much appreciated, as I've combed the archives already and not > found this info yet... > > Many thanks > (the other) Dan Mahoney > > (------SMB CONF FILE------) > # Samba config file created using SWAT > # from GushiComTech.DanMahoney.Com (127.0.0.1) > # Date: 1999/04/23 00:52:41 > > # Global parameters > workgroup = MAIN > netbios name = BSD > netbios aliases = GUSHI > server string = Samba Server > log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m > max log size = 50 > nt acl support = Yes > time server = Yes > read prediction = Yes > socket options = TCP_NODELAY > strip dot = Yes > domain logons = Yes > os level = 65 > lm announce = False > preferred master = Yes > domain master = Yes > wins proxy = Yes > wins support = Yes > unix realname = Yes > NIS homedir = Yes > guest account = danm (tried nobody, ftp, and danm) > hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127. > case sensitive = Yes > mangle case = Yes > delete veto files = Yes > map system = Yes > map hidden = Yes > strict locking = Yes > delete readonly = Yes > dos filetimes = Yes > dos filetime resolution = Yes > fake directory create times = Yes > > [printers] > comment = All Printers > path = /usr/spool/samba > print ok = Yes > browseable = No > > [HOME] > path = /tmp > valid users = danm root > admin users = danm root > read only = No > (------END FILE------) Hmmm - you don't seem to have anything with browseable=yes so....it's hidden from you. If you don't turn on the lights, you can't see in the dark :) http://www.samba.org would probably help you more than questions@freebsd.org. HTH -- Regards | _/\_/\ Andrew Johns BSc (Comp Sci) | / \ TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd | \_...__/ http://www.turnaround.com.au/ | \/ "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message