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Are these PC's connected to 2 networks? I.E. all NIC A and all NIC B to 2 networks? If so you cant ping between them because they all have IP's belonging to different subnets. 1. NIC A:172.16.1.254 Mask:255.255.255.0 2. NIC A:172.16.2.254 Mask:255.255.255.0 3. NIC A:172.16.15.254...

look at: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html

Tx Packets --> 100% Collisions --> x% Close enough ?? Perfect performance means no collisions at all - a full duplex switched net should have no collisions. A repeated net with hubs or coax repeaters will have collisions - how many of them are acceptable depends on the current load of your...

Try to post the smb.conf (just leave out the comments ;-) ) that will make it easier to determine the source of the probem. If you can change the debug level to 3 and post the relevant part of the logs too. Can you see the Linux box in the network neighborhood ? What's the error message? Can you...

You are right - lots of broadcasts reduce network performance. I assume you are using switches to speed up your net but broadcasts are always transmitted to every port on a switch and that really affects the performance. I would use a protocol decoder to determine what that broadcasts are. Some...

IMHO a plain file/print server does not need dual Xeons, I'd rather invest in more RAM and a RAID 5. My experience is that the CPU load is not a big problem for a file server, RAM gives it more memory to cache the FS and a good RAID controller (or external RAID subsys) prevents a loss of data...

I can think of 2 possiblities: .) no file / print sharing on the Win98 box .) hosts allow - try to remove the host allow lines Try too look at: http://www.gouldfamily.org/oreilly/samba/ch11.htm Hans (aka Urgl)

If it's a name service problem try nmblookup -A ip-of-host to see if you can resolve the name. Please post your smb.conf and the output of smbclient -L localhost

Win98 uses encrypted passwords - use the regkey supplied with samba to set Win98 to cleartext passwords. Set wins support = yes in your smb.conf to resolve the name service problems.

You are basically right - samba will do the trick. For Win98 WS set in your smb.conf the following values: encrypt passwords = yes wins support = yes Use the IP of your redhat server as WINS server in your TCP settings. Another option would be to use marsnew (IIRC) to emulate a novell server...

Sorry George for not replying earlier but I had a lot of work during the last days. I will try to duplicate your setup with a new Suse 7.1 and samba 2.0.7. One thing you could try in the meantime is to set the password level in the smb.conf to a value larger than your password length - that...

AFAIK ping uses DNS name resolution and not nmb so a simple ping will not work. You could try to use smbclient -L to check if a service is running and if samba resolves the name to the correct IP. Hans

If you want to directly connect 2 PC's you have to use a crossover cable. Tale a look at the pinouts of the 2 cables - I think one of them is a crossover cable and the other one is straight through. For a Ethernet cable the important pins are: 1-1 2-2 3-3 6-6 for a straight through cable and 1-3...

How did you test the resolving? Did you try to use smbclient? Hans

I think the first thing to do is to have a WINS server. Just uncomment the line wins support = yes in your smb.conf and restart samba. On your workstations add the IP of red10 as WINS server (restart as usual ;-) ) Are the other services (Apache / FTP) accessible? Just try http://192.168.0.104...