[ale] Samba issue

Jim Seymour bluejay at speedfactory.net
Fri May 12 16:56:23 EDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 15:21 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> Jim Seymour wrote:
> > Need a little help with SAMBA. I have a home network with a Debian Etch 
> > box as the server. I have two Windows clients connected to it. The 
> > problem is that the windows machines can only see the server and not 
> > anything else on the workgroup. Also I use Gnome and cannot see any of 
> > the windows boxes that are connected to it. Same with KDE.
> > 
> > So far what I can tell is that iptables is not blocking anything.
> > 
> > Both the nmbd and smbd daemons are running.
> > 
> > All of the computers can access the Internet.
> > 
> > My current samba.conf was built using SWAT. Nothing else has managed to 
> > get me any further.
> > 
> > I have not been able to find a reference to my problem anywhere on the 
> > Internet.
> 
> Do you have workgroup set in your config?  Are the windows boxes set to 
> that workgroup?

My apologies to all. It seems I had forgotten to enable file and printer
sharing on the windows boxes. I think I need a cat scan or something.

Thanks,
-- 
Jim Seymour <bluejay at speedfactory.net>
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