Re: One Way Samba-Solved


--- NoOp <glgxg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 02/21/2008 03:06 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:

But it's not mounting now as shown above refering
to
the wrong IP ADDR. Using the right IP, 192.168.1.
65 works. If anyone can offer some suggestions to
get
my hostname to refer to the current IP and not the
one
before I reconfigured the maching when it was
"kubuntu-desktop" and hard wired, I'd be most
grateful.
Thanks, NoOp for trying. I appreciate it,


Here are a couple of general rules that I typically
follow when setting
a small home/business DSL network - they may be of
help, or maybe not &
others will certainly have their own preferences.

1. I ensure that all the fixed computers have fixed
IP's that are not on
the same subnet as the gateway router. If for
example the gateway is
192.168.0.1, then my machines would be say
192.168.2.100-110 and the
gateway would be 196.68.2.1. Many routers/modems use
192.168.1.1, so I
make sure to avoid the 192.168.1.x subnet
altogether. It just makes life
easier & avoids any possible mistakes in the subnet.

Greek to me. MY IP's are wlan0-192.1268.1.65(was
192.168.1.64 when wired, eth0), eth0-192.168.1.66 and
is hard wired and gateway is 192.168.1.254. That's
what they are on my side of the router/modem combo and
are different on 2WIRE's side but translated to my
assignments(fixed) on their side. When I visit
http:/gateway.2wire.net it shows my netword as listed
above and another set of IP's for the gateway, dns
servers, etc. Hope this makes sense to you, doesn't to
me. They do show a lower range of IP's, don't remember
the range, for static IP's which my IP's are just out
of range. Haven't tried assigning numbers in that
range yet as am afraid to lose connection. Will listen
to any howto suggestions but remember I'm a network
dummy.

2. I use the routers dhcp server to issue dhcp for a
visiting laptop
etc., but I make sure that the dhcp ranges it issues
are defined to be
outside of the range of my fixed machines. In this
case, I would allow
it to issue dhcp addresses from 192.168.2.111 to
192.168.2.121 for
example. This avoids the problem of the router
issuing a dhcp address in
the 192.168.2.100-110 range when a laptop is
connected and one of the
other 'fixed' machines is off at the time. This is
particularly critical
if you are running VNC's.

Will not affect me; have no laptop. What's a VNC?

For your existing problem(s) I'd recommend that you
check your router
settings and clear out any previous dhcp address'
that have been
previously issued. If the router still has the mac
address & IP of one
of your newly reassigned fixed IP's, then there will
be a conflict.

Sorta what I assumed. But as a network dummy, I don't
know how. Need a guide for my 2WIRE 1701hg gateway, or
a howto, to show me what/how to do it. I've looked for
things like this on 2wire's site and didn't find or
recognize it. I'd like to fix this issue soon, if I
knew how.

3. I normally rely on my router for dhcp, firewall,
fqdn updates, etc.,
so I also generally put the DSL modem in bridge mode
depending upon the
type of DSL modem. For example a Speedstream 5100B
can cause all sorts
of problems with dhcp & links when VNC's are used.
Setting to bridge
mode and allowing the router to do it's job works
considerably better.

I have set my wlan0 via KWifiManager to managed and
saw a bridge setting on drop-down menu. KWifiManager
isn't installed on the wired ubuntu64 and Network
doesn't have a setting for this that I can find. I
could install KWifi on both and changed to "bridged"
whatever it means if it would help. The only vnc
component I find installed is xvnc4viewer with only
the apt setup configuration applied. Don't know if
that puts me as using vnc catagory. Should I used
"briged" or not under this circumstance?

4. On the Ubuntu machines; go into each one on the
network settings and
actually enter the IP Address & Alieses of each of
the fixed machines
(System|Administration|Network|Hosts|Add). If
necessary, check the
/etc/host file and add them there, example (modified
for the purposes of
this post of course):

127.0.0.1 localhost mycomputer.mshome
127.0.1.1 mycomputer

I have did this and rechecked it multiple times just
since this posts. I have entries for 127.0.0.1,
127.0.1.1 and the static IP for each machine. This has
been checked on all the gui's installed on each
machine and in /etc/hosts.

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable
hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
192.168.2.101 myothercomputer
192.168.2.102 my-laptop
192.168.2.105 mytestserver
192.168.2.103 mywindowsmachine
192.168.2.106 myserver

I'll even add the extra IP's(only one on each machine
for me, of course). This is new to me.

5. For Gutsy machines: remove & purge apparmor - at
least until the bugs
with cups & pdf-printer etc., are worked out.
Besides, apparmor is
primarily an enterprise security application & I've
found that (for now
anyway) that it is much more trouble than it is
worth in a small home
network.

Ok. Is this why I can't print from the remote computer
to the shared printer or is it most likely a setup
issue?

6. Don't mess with command line automount smbf
unless you actually have
a reason to do so. I have all of my machines set to
automatically show
the neighbor shares icon on the desktop and in
Nautilus & if the other
machine is alive it automounts just by clicking on
the icon or the
machine folder in Nautilus.

Just using the mount cmd to learn. I prefer the
nautilus or dolphin gui also when working and I think
I have that solved. At least I now have it on both
machines if it sticks. How do you get the desktop
icons? Just drag them from the file browser window to
the desktop?

It's really quite easy to do, all you do is
Places|Connect to
Server|Windows Share| then:

Server: 192.168.2.104 (example)
Name to use for connection: MyOtherMachine
- Connect
Bingo, I now have a desktop icon to MyOtherMachine
and in Nautilus I
have a network MyOtherMachine network folder.

Ooops, spoke too quick. I could use ubunti-desktop if
I have to but do you know the k-menu command?
If I reboot or logout, the icon and network folders
come up automatically.

7. If I have a problem connecting to a
smb://machinename then I can
almost always connect using the machine IP address.
If it's failing on
machinename, then I go back and check #4.

I wish I could truthfully say I haven't did this yet.

8. For connecting to a Windows drive (reboot or
otherwise), follow the
instructions in

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComprehensiveSambaGuide
pretty much to
the letter. Works for me.

Thanks Gary. This should get me more progress and is
much appreciated. I will keep this post in my Debian
folder for reference. I also just spent 3-4 hours on
the gateway.2wire.net support site searching for info
on howto do the router and emailing them for support.
I did eventually find some needed info. The only
problem is entering a search term gives you 10-15
pages of hits most of which is unrelated. Not
efficient to find answers. After, I devour all this,
I'll try it out and report the results. Appreaciate
your excellent tutorial, I needed it,


Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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