Re: [TCLUG:2631] Samba setup

[Sandipan Panigrahi <pani@frontiernet.net>]

I think I had faced the same problem a long time ago. 

1. Make sure that there is no domain name and hostname with the loopback
interface in your hosts 
    file. i.e. a localhost.localdomain after the "127.0.0.1  localhost"
in the /etc/hosts file.
2. By default it should use your hostname but you can add an entry in
the /etc/smb.conf
    as netbios name = myserver in the [globals] section.
3. Make sure your netbios nameserver daemon is running. Do a ps aux and
grep for it.
4. Look in your /var/log/samba* messages. If nmbd has started up and all
that.
5. Check your dns proxy section in the /etc/smb.conf file and set it to
yes/no depending
    on how your network is configured.
6. Ensure you have the latest version of samba for your platform.
7. Restart samba with a /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart

I think these are all the steps I looked into while solving this
problem. I donot remember
which of them exactly fixed the problem, because I seem to have all
those changes in my
system !
--
HTH.
sandipan

Paul & Paule Hocker wrote:
> 
> Ok, I have RH 5.0 installed and trying to setup Samba to use as file/print
> server. It seems like I have things setup correctly. However, whenever I do:
> 
> smbclient -L myserver
> 
> it just hangs there and does nothing. If is do:
> 
> smbclient -L 90.0.0.1
> 
> it works like it should. I can actuall assign drives on my Win98 box using:
> 
> net view y: \\90.0.0.1\tmp
> 
> but cannot use the actual server name.
> 
> I'm thinking that I have forgotten something in my smb.conf, or perhaps I
> have my network setup incorrectly. Any ideas out there???
> 
> Thanks, Paul.