> > I'm having problems with samba 2.0 (the .deb in potato) that I was hoping > > someone could help me with. > > > > My win95 box cannot be seen by smbclient, and my linux box cannot be seen > > by my win95 box. Both can ping each other, however, so I don't think it's > > an ether problem. > #1 RTFM samba-2.0.2/source/web/diagnose.c !!!
This looks useful, I'll spend the time to find out how it wants to be compiled sometime. > Cay you ping the Linux box from Win95 using both the IP address and > the machine name? If not check win95 hosts & lmhosts. Check Linux > /etc/hosts. I did not have entries in the hosts/lmhosts for the respective machines, and adding them fixed the problem of 'smbclient -L 192.168.1.30' dieing, though I still don't understand why, since I was using an IP address, but no matter as it works now. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ smbclient -N -L localhost > I connect with > smbclient '\\win\WINC' -N Yes, what I was attempting to do was list shares on the win95 box. The similar command did not work before, either, though. > > Why is my samba box not the master? (I've got my smb.conf attached later) > > btw, FRIGG isn't a printer, but I would like to have it serve a printer > > which explains the Comment field. > This is all explained in the docs! To have your Linux box be the > master put this in [ global ] > os level = 33 Still does not work, I eventually got it to be master, but not with this line which appeared to have no effect. I had been going through the BROWSING.txt file and removing and adding many things from smb.conf as experiments but to no avail, it just so happened that my os level = line was commented out when I pasted non-comment lines into the message. I always read docs before posting questions, and have been trying to figure this out for over a week. Please give people the benefit of the doubt before exclaiming that everything they need is in the docs. > After reading the doc's let us know what you had to do to get it up, > OK. I gave it one last stab after the small success with your /etc/hosts suggestion I figured there were more resolution problems, and so I bit the bullet and enabled the builtin WINS server in samba, pointed the win95 box at it, and all appears to work. I don't like this because I think there should be a better way, but in the meantime, I'll use this as it appears to work. Thank you both very much. Your help is appreciated. -Dano
