Re: Sharing with workgroup
- From: rjr <rjr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 01:27:59 GMT
On 2006-01-08, Bill <billaboard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Robert wrote:
>> Bill wrote:
>>
>>> I've been trying to get this to work with various flavors of Linux
>>> since the beginning of 2004, so the New Year resolution is to make it
>>> work with a new machine running FC4.
>>>
>>> I have a home/small business Windows Workgroup based on a wireless
>>> router with machines that come and go. The Windows end is mainly XP,
>>> plus one W2k and some older OS's for testing software. Some desktop
>>> machines have fixed IP addresses, and the dhcp server on the router is
>>> set to provide IP's from 192.168.20 upwards.
>>> None of the Windows machines acts as the browse master, and I must
>>> keep browsing flexible ie elections and no server for the browsing lists.
>>>
>>> Early last week, I thought I had all this working, but within a few
>>> days we were getting not accessible messages in various directions.
>>>
>>> The workgroup name is set correctly everywhere, and all machines log
>>> on with the same user name and with a null samba password. (FC4 seems
>>> to require that in the initial setup, you log on with a password, but
>>> then replace it with a null - attempting to enter a null password
>>> returns a statement that the password and confirmation do not match).
>>>
>>> Pinging with IP addresses works everywhere. I just want the FC4
>>> machine to join in the elections, recognise the username and grant
>>> access.
>>>
>>> Any guidance as to where to start gratefully received!
>>>
>>> BillH
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm guessing you have their names added by smbpasswd?
>
> I believe that I have. The common username is listed as a user and I
> have now set the null password using smbpasswd -n <username>
>
>> -or-
>
>> since you're not worried about security, set;
>> [global]
>> security = share
>> [<some location>]
>> public = yes
>>
> I have added the line security = share to the global segment in smbconf
> and checked that public = yes is set in both the locations I have shared.
>
> Still no success.
>
> Running Ethereal on one of the Windows machines appears to show that
> when the Windows machine tries to make contact the Linux machine returns:
>
> Negative session response Not listening for called name
>
> The smbd and nmbd processes are running and netstat appears to show a
> TCP listen on a netbios port.
>
> Running nbtstat -c on the Windows machines seems to give the correct
> machine name for the Linux machine. nbtstat -r seems to give more
> entries for the Linux machine than any of the Win machines.
>
> How can one be sure that the name resolution is set the same at the
> Windows and Linux ends? I can see where to set it to Kerberos, LDAP or
> smb, but don't know what the normal setting should be. I also am not
> totally confident about password encryption settings between the two OS's.
>
>
>
Samba is pretty easy to setup. Could be one of many things. Check out
linuxhomenetworking.com or org and howtoforge.com. Also, in
/usr/share/doc/samba... you should have plenty of stuff to read. That'll
get you up quicker than bouncing back and forth for days here. If you
still have problems, please post back.
--
Robert
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