Tim, You might try this if you know samba is actually running.x http://us4.samba.org/samba/ftp/tcpdump-smb/ Or you might nmap ports 137-139 on it to see if the are active. HTH, Troy Timothy Wilson wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > Something very strange happened the other day to my Debian server. > > I walked back to my desk after class and discovered that my screensaver > wouldn't clear. It turns out that the dept. file server was turned off. :-( > I have no idea why. Perhaps someone pushed the button (it sits back in one > of our stockrooms). Perhaps some weird hardware or power failure. > > I rebooted the machine and everything seemed fine. But now samba doesn't > work. My colleagues who use Win95 can't access their directories on the > server. I use NFS and I'm not having any trouble at all. > > I originally had samba running from inetd, but I reconfigured it to run as a > daemon. It seems like samba just isn't answering requests. Any ideas about > how I can diagnose this problem? I'm stumped. > > -- > Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: > Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ | http://www.zope.org/ > W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org/ > wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -- Troy Johnson mailto:john1536 at tc.umn.edu http://umn.edu/~john1536/ I woke up this morning and couldn't find my socks, so I called information. She said they were behind the couch. She was right. -- Stephen Wright --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org