Cannopt see samba from Win2K

[TomCorbettSC]

Like many other posters to this forum, my problem is that I cannot "see" the samba shares from my windows 2000 workgroup. My specific situation is this:

a) my LAN is a wireless network connected to DSL via a router;
b) all machines can ping each other just fine;
c) several hosts are Macs running OS X and when I set up my Linux box (RedHat 8) to run samba I saw alot of traffic among them for election to local master...I set os level to 65 on linux box

d) from linux when I run smbclient to connect to the windows 2000 box I can see its shares just fine (after authnticating) but the reverse is not true

e) after reading O'Reilly book Using Samba 2nd Ed. I set up the linux box as a WINS server and configured my windows connection to recognize it...no help

f) the OS X boxes can see the Linux shares just fine as demonstrated with smbclient -U% -L localhost on each...it's just Win2k that's the problem

g) disabled AppleTalk client in Win2k ...no help there either.

I've been working this on and off for about a week but I'm not quitting until I get this working! I've tried about a zillion different smb.conf configurations, rebooted both machines numerous times, started and stopped smbd and nmbd until I'm doing in in my dreams, but am still coming up empty. Did all the DIAGNOSIS.txt suggestions, looked at logs. In the end, it'll probably turn out to be something incredibly simple...but I'm just not seeing it.

Thanks!

 

[clonny2]

1: Make sure both smbd and nmbd are running

pidof sbmd
pidof nmbd

2: From Win2K try attaching using IP instead of name.

from dos prompt:
net use * \\x.x.x.x\SHARE_NAME

x.x.x.x is the IP of the Linux server.

You can also post your smb.conf and we can take a look at it.

 

[bluegroper]

As always, work thru the steps at

http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/Samba24Hc13.pdf