I know I only recently posted the below message, but thought it good top post the solution that I stumbled across. I did another try in the windows network neighbourhood and got a different message, about "No service is operating at the destination network endpoint". Did some browsing on Technet and found this referred to a port issue. So looked at the firewall settings and saw they were set to high. Put them down to no firewall and the windows clients could then see the redhat server. Probably need to increase the settings and just let through the port for smb? Not too sure about that though. Any other thoughts appreciated, but at least I can get things going a bit more now. Thanks again to all who contribute to the list. Neil. On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 20:23, Neil Loffhagen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm hoping someone can tell me what I'm missing from the following > smb.conf file, or elsewhere, that is stopping a newly installed Redhat 8 > server being seen by an NT 4.0 server and Windows 98 clients. There is > definitely a network connection - I can use smbclient on the redhat > server and access the NT shares. And there seems to be broadcasting > going on, as when I alter the server string the change is seen on the > Windows clients, but when I then double click on the redhat Server icon > in network neighbourhood I get the error that the network path was not > found. > > I can ping by name and IP address both ways, from redhat to windows and > from windows to redhat. > > When I do smbclient -L server-name on the redhat server itself it shows > the shares as active, but when I do the same on a Linux client I get > connection refused errors, which I guess means it's some sort of > permission problem. I've tried adding the users as samba users, with > the same passwords. > > In the midst of all this have been able to get the Redhat server to join > the NT domain, using the smbpasswd -j domain-name -r nt-pdc > > If anyone can help to point me in the right direction it would be very, > very much appreciated. Have been through the smb.conf man pages, but I > must be missing something. Not sure exactly what though. > > Thanks again, > > Neil. > > # Samba config file created using SWAT > # from brandrh (127.0.0.1) > # Date: 2002/12/04 17:44:39 > > # Global parameters > [global] > workgroup = BRAND.CO.UK > netbios name = BRANDRH > server string = RedHat 8 Server > security = DOMAIN > encrypt passwords = Yes > password server = brandnt > passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u > passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n > *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* > password level = 8 > username level = 8 > unix password sync = Yes > log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log > max log size = 0 > socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 > os level = 33 > local master = No > dns proxy = No > wins server = 128.1.1.1 > printing = lprng > > [homes] > comment = Home Directories > valid users = %S > read only = No > create mask = 0664 > directory mask = 0775 > > [printers] > comment = All Printers > path = /var/spool/samba > printable = Yes > browseable = No > > [tmp] > comment = Temporary file space > path = /tmp > read only = No > guest ok = Yes > > [public] > comment = Public Stuff > path = /home/neil > read only = No > guest ok = Yes > > [neil] > comment = Neil's Home Folder > path = /home/neil > valid users = neil, administrator > read only = No > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
