[WBEL-users] Samba problems

[Jan-Albert van Ree]

On Saturday 21 February 2004 20:54, Rob Freeman wrote:
> I am trying to get Samba running on WBEL and I am only having partial
> luck. My network consists of 1 WBEL, 1 fedora, and 3 WinXP machines.  The
> fedora box and the WinXP boxes can all see each other fine.  In order to
> access the WBEL box, I have to use \\ipaddress\share
> <file:///\\ipaddress\share>  to get to it.  It does not show up in
> network neighborhood.  On the WBEL box, when I choose network servers, I
> see my local domain, but only the WBEL box shows up.  I did not enable a
> firewall on the machine, and I checked the chkconfig to see if anything
> was running.  My smb.conf is real simple:

Perhaps a browse master issue...
On one of the two linux boxes, under the General heading add "OS level = 
34" , on the other set "OS level = 33" The one with the highest OS level 
becomes browsemaster. You might want to make that box wins server too, and 
make all other boxes wins clients.

Here's my smb.conf from my server

[global]
        smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
        printcap = /etc/printcap
        domain master = yes
        browseable = yes
        printing = bsd
        encrypt passwords = yes
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY
        wins support = true
        max log size = 50
        case sensitive = no
        directory mask = 0755
        map to guest = Bad User
        security = user
        preserve case = yes
        local master = yes
        workgroup = Workgroup
        server string = You can hit me but you can't break my balls!
        syslog = 1
        netbios name = Burmashave
        load printers = yes
        guest account = samba
        os level = 34
        create mask = 0644
        default case = lower
 
My DHCP server names this server as wins server, therefore this box always 
has a full list of clients and all machines connect fetch this list first 
and use it.
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