Samba connection problem

[skw8966]

I've been through the samba troubleshooting section and this forum but cannot find an answer to my problem.

I have Samba 2.2.7a installed on my Red Hat 9.0 machine. I need to connect to it through my Win98 machine. It seems to be installed fine.

smbd and nmbd are running properly.

When I go to my Network Neighborhood on the Win machine it shows the Linux box but I cannot access it.

The error I receive is "\\Abigail is not accessible. The specified computer did not receive your request. Try again later."

I can ping the linux from win and win from linux.

Below are some commands I have run and their results.

[root@Abigail samba]# smbclient –L localhost –U%
added interface ip=172.25.205.110 bcast=172.25.205.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Domain=[EXCHANGE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.7a]

Sharename Type Comment
temp Disk
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 2.2.7a)
ADMIN$ Disk IPC Service (Samba 2.2.7a)

Server Comment
ABIGAIL Samba 2.2.7a
MCPHERSONS1 Samba 2.0.6

Workgroup Master
EXCHANGE MCPHERSONS1
MCPHERSONS RISO1
WORKGROUP MCPHERSONSNT

[root@Abigail samba]# Smbclient ‘\\abigail\temp’
added interface ip=172.25.205.110 bcast=172.25.205.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
session request to ABIGAIL failed (Not listening for calling name)
session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening for calling name)

Here's the smb.conf file.
[global]

workgroup = exchange
netbios name = abigail
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
username map = /etc/user.map
null passwords = yes
OS level = 20
log file = %S.log
log level = 3
logon drive = q://
unix password sync = yes
domain logons = yes
pam password change = yes
preferred master = yes
domain master = yes
local master = yes
hosts allow = 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.0

[temp]
path = /tmp
writeable = yes
admin users = root, skwilliamson
only user = no
valid users = skwilliamson, scliming, bnniese, bleckstein, sdhornberger, maweber
user = skwilliamson, scliming, bnniese, bleckstein, sdhornberger, maweber
public = no
directory mode = 700

#This is the end of smb.conf

All users listed are also setup on our Novell Netware and Linux.

Does anyone know why I'm getting this error?

Thanks.

 

[cyoung]

You need to change your hosts allow value to include your local network. Right now, it only allows the localhost (the server) to connect

Good Luck

 

[skw8966]

It works.

Thanks a million!

 

[skw8966]

I'm using my IP address and it's working the gateway address doesn't.

I only need a couple Win machines to access it.

Can I add additional IP addresses to the Hosts Allow?

How do I need to separate them?

Thanks,

 

[cyoung]

You can add the individual addresses, or you can add a range

hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 192.168.1. 192.168.2.

the addresses are just seperated by a space

Good luck

 

[skw8966]

Thanks.

 

[cyoung]

Glad that this worked for you.

 

[hudhwk]

Hi guys,

I just had the same problem but I am using security = domain, any idea?

Thanks in advance, sincerely.

Daniel Buentello
"Here comes the hawk!