[Balug-talk] Samba Configuration

[Jonathan Jefferies]

I'm cut up Ivan's post to ?aid clarity? I hope:

ivan at inviosoftware.com wrote:

 > The good idea is to put both computers into same workgroup.

I believe I've put both computers in the same workgroup, i.e. JJJ_HOME
(imaginative name eh?) I this is in smb.conf as seen down below
and in the windowsME: "Control Panel->Network->Identification"

BTW, Name for linux box is linux_box and winME is pentium_266.

 > What
 > smbclient shows if you run it against WinME?
Excellent suggestion which gives me reason to believe the two machines
are close to communicating:

[root at localhost samba]# smbclient -U% -L Pentium_266
added interface ip=192.168.1.100 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0

         Sharename      Type      Comment
         ---------      ----      -------
         266_F          Disk  <-- winME shared disks seen from linux_box
         266_E          Disk
         266_D          Disk
         266_C          Disk
         IPC$           IPC       Remote Inter Process Communication

         Server               Comment
         ---------            -------

         Workgroup            Master
         ---------            -------


What would happen if on
 > WinME box in command prompt you'll try to execute something like:
 >
 > net use z: \\<server>\<share>
 >
I tried
net use z: \\linux_box\samba
and got
"the computer name specified in the network path cannot be located."
and when I tried (on a dare)
net use z: \\JJJ_HOME\samba
I got "Error 59: an expected network error has occured. Restart....."

Looking below at the smb.conf file I have
netbios name = JJJ_HOME
could this be incorrect? I tried changing to "linux_box" but that
made no obvious difference (after restarting smb and nmb).

And I added the following to /etc/samba/smb.conf
 > add:
 >
 > os level = 66
 > preferred master = yes
 > local master = yes
 >
 > also you may add:
 >
 > hosts allow = 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
 >

 > And I'm assuming that username on both systems is the same.
there is a "jefferi" as a user on linux_box and that is what I
logged into the winME box as. Also the password is the same in both
instances.

NOTE: however when I restart the winME machine I get the logon popup box
and when I enter the password winME comes back and complains that there
is not a domain server? Is SAMBA the domain server?

Also David Mandala suggested:
 >Try this, on your Windoz boxen edit the lmhosts and hosts files and add
 >an entry in each for the SAMBA server. See if that helps, it does many
 >times in my experience. The SAMBA server needs a static address but the
 >Windoz boxen are quite happy with DHCP addresses.

Which I did. But odd question where does one establish what the name of
a machine is for linux? Simply the /etc/hosts file? And what would be
the form? 192.168.1.100 linux_box localhost
and is there a conflict with
the standard
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost

J.


  n Mon, 2003-05-12 at 23:41, Jonathan Jefferies wrote:

 > Appreciate any comments or suggestions on how to get samba working
 > to communicate between my linux box and windowsME box::
 >
 > After many adventures, I have changed from DHCP to static
 > addresses on my home network(LAN) - as suggested by several folks here.
 > I have run SWAT and configured what seems to be a basic samba.conf
 > file. And I've gone into my windows box and configured networking
 > there. But still I'm not able to see my linux box from windows, i.e.
 > clicking on local neighborhood->entire network eventually times out.
 >
 > Setup is:
 > Linksys firewall/router connected to cable modem (WAN)
 > Linux box connected to Linksys via ethernet (LAN)
 > windowsME box connected to Linksys via ethernet (LAN)
 >
 > Linksys uses DHCP to get IP from my ISP
 > Linux box is set as ip 192.168.1.100 (static)
 > windowsME box is set as ip 192.168.1.101 (static)
 >
 > linux box is able to ping both Linksys and windowsME
 > windowsME is able to ping both Linksys and linux box
 >
 > samba.conf file is:
 > # Samba config file created using SWAT
 > # from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1)
 > # Date: 2003/05/12 22:59:20
 >
 > # Global parameters
 > [global]
 >     workgroup = JJJ_HOME
 >     netbios name = JJJ_HOME
 >     server string = Samba Server
 >     encrypt passwords = Yes
 >     obey pam restrictions = Yes
 >     pam password change = Yes
 >     passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
 >     passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n
 > *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
 >     unix password sync = Yes
 >     log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
 >     max log size = 0
 >     socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
 >     dns proxy = No
 >     wins support = Yes
 >     printing = lprng