On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 09:37:32PM -0400, Mark Saunders wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have a RH 7.2 install and I am having trouble configuring Samba. I
> cannot ge the Windows 98 box to see the Samba shares although the server
> name shows up in the network neighborhood.
>
> The smbd and nmbd daemons are running and I can access the windows box
> from the linux machine with smbclient. I can get and put files all day
> betwwen the boxes. This works fine.
>
> When I try to click on the server name in Windows network neightborhood
> I get a "Cannot locate the spcified computer" or something similar which
> seems to be a netbios name problem. I have the logs turned on and the
> tail of the smbd log just says 'waiting for a connection" It is never
> seeing the Windows attempt to connect. The nmbd log has lots of text but
> nothing jumping out.
>
> I follwed the trouble tree in the Using Samba book by O'reilly and the
> linux box fails in nmblookup. I get "query failed to find name _SAMBA_"
> and the book points to a config problem with nmbd. My trouble is I don't
> see where any config is done other than smb.conf.
>
<snip>
There is no config for Samba other than smb.conf. I haven't read the
O'Reilly book. However, my stable reference for this kind of
troubleshooting is the DIAGNOSIS.txt file in the docs directory for
Samba. What you're talking about looks like test #5 in that file. On
Red Hat 7.2, it's at:
/usr/share/doc/samba-2.2.1a/docs/textdocs/DIAGNOSIS.txt
I'm working through similar problems at the moment, setting up a machine
with Samba shares to be seen by other Windows clients on the network,
and vice versa.
Paul
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