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Hello I hope someone can help me. I have RH7.3 installed and I want to use Samba to connect to my other 2 Win XP PCs. I have configured Samba to work. From my Linux box I can see and access all the shares on my linux box and the windows boxes, but thew windows boxes say they cant find the network path to the linux in Network Neighborhood. It looks like my linux box is not properly telling my Win boxes that it exists! Help Me
Do you have a firewall configured on your XP boxes? That could be one place to start checking. Also, I think that you need to enable NetBEUI over TCP/IP in your network properties in XP in order for SMB (CIFS) to work correctly. Do you have the same workgroup setup on all machines including Samba?
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Well here it is. I dont have the firewall setup on the XP Boxes. and I do not have NetBEUI setup as a protocol, but I do have NetBIOS winabled over TCP/IP. and all the workgroups are the same. I am now going to try and set the Linux box as a WINS server. any other suggestions .. let me know!! thanks
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Yes my passwords are encrypted. I just dont understand it. I can use smbclient from the linux box and connect to my shares on the whole network. Even in the Konquerer browser I can see the other PCs and connect to them, I just cant get the WIN PCs to connect to the Linux box. Would it help if I posted the results from my testparm?
thanks again
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do you have your NetBIOS name teh same in /etc/smb.conf and your network card rc.d file?
Have you created teh necesary accounts?
Since I know who is in my house and trust them (just ;) )I made a guest account on my linux box (since teh others don't use passwd to login to win).
To make a guest account do
#adduser guest
#passwd guest
Use anything for the passwd - going to disable#vim /ect/passwd
you should find something that looks like:
guest:x:2855:2857::/home/guest/:/bin/bash
change to:
guest:*:2855:2857::/home/guest/:/bin/bash
This makes it that no passwd is required for a user called guest. This is a good (insecure) method to allow people to browse your shares easy just watch your share parmissions.
Other option is to make accounts on your linux box matching teh username and passwd on the win boxes
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Thanks again .. I have made a guest account with no password and I have my smb.conf file set for the NetBIOS name of linux, but I cant find an rc.d file? or how to change it? I see a directory named that but there are all kinds of files in it .. none named rc.d. Could you let me know what to change and how?
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Edit your smb.conf file. Check that your share has the full and correct pathname:
[Sharename]
path = /home/shares/folder_name
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When I said edit an rc.d file I ment the config file to do with you rnetwork card.
I have a PCMCIA network so I edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opt and changed my netBIOS name there
CAn you see you rlinux from win without this?
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I am still trying. I can see the Linux box in the network Neighborhood, but I cant get it to browse my shares on the Linux box. It says that the path is not found. But using smbclient on the linux box I can connect to both the shares on the Linux box and the Windows boxes. I dont think my Linux box is broadcasting its name to the other boxes. Any ideas?
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I have precisely the same problem I think, except that I'm using Mandrake 8.2 (Redhat-based I know). Neither of my WinXP boxes can access the Samba server on the Linux box. Everything else works fine (SSH, ftp, vnc), but trying to access shares gives '... The network path was not found.'
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I have the same problem with a new workstation, Red Hat 7.3. "the network path was not found" seems to indicate some sort of DNS/WINS/NetBIOS problem, but I've never tried to set up SAMBA before.
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