RE: [SLUG] Browsing Windows from Linux Not Quite Working

From: Clay, John (John.Clay@lfr.com)
Date: Wed Jul 31 2002 - 16:00:58 EDT


Thanks to everyone for the help re: browsing windows from linux.

My samba server, using nautilus, could see the other domain members
including pdc (nt). It couldn't see any of the shares on the pdc though. I
don't think it's an authentication problem. I followed O'Reilly's
instructions on page 171 of Using Samba and the prompts indicated that the
server was added to the domain successfully. The smb.conf seems OK and I can
browse samba from nt.

[global]
        workgroup = LFRG-TLH
        netbios name = HUMPHRY
        server string = samba v% on (L%)
        security = domain
        encrypt passwords = yes
        min password length = 0
        null passwords = yes
        password server = TLH-FILE-PRINT
        guest ok = yes
        unix password sync = yes
        passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd
        domain logons = yes

[test]
        path = /home/test
        read only = no
        guest ok = yes

[jmc]
        comment = %U home directory
        path = /home/jmc
        read only = no
        guest ok = yes

Any ideas??

Thanks

John
Tallahassee

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian C. Blenke [mailto:icblenke@nks.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 10:09 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Browsing Windows from Linux - more

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 08:52, Clay, John wrote:
>
> My win box can browse my samba box but I have no idea of how do make samba
> browse win. Can anyone send me a copy of an smb.conf file that will enable
a
> samba box to browse a windows network?

The protocol used by SAMBA and Microsoft Networking is called SMB -
Server Message Block. Older versions of SMB were hosted over NetBIOS
connections, including NetBIOS over IP (UDP 137/138 and TCP 139). Newer
versions of SMB are hosted natively over TCP 445.

The Common Internet Filesystem (CIFS) is Microsoft's attempt at
simplifying the SMB protocol enough for widespread Internet acceptance.
The easiest way to understand CIFS is to consider it a subset of SMB.

By "browse", I suppose you are referring to a GUI window whereby icons
are displayed that represent the neighbor SMB nodes. There are DOZENS of
these "Network Neighborhood" browsers in the OpenSource community now:

Nautilus (type "smb:" in your nautilus window, or
          smb://user:password@servername/sharename/ to map a share)
        Recent versions of Nautilus with the new gnome-vfs
Konquerer (type "lan:/" in your konquerer window)
        KDE 2.2 or later
LinNeighborhood
        http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/
xSMBrowser
        http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chadspen/homepage.html
Gnomba
        http://gnomba.sourceforge.net/
Komba
        http://zeus.fh-brandenburg.de/~schwanz/php/komba.php3

Heck, do a few searches on freshmeat and you'll uncover a dozen more.

I hope this helps.

- Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com> <icblenke@nks.net>
http://ian.blenke.com



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