[KLUG Members] Re: Quick samba q

[Adam Williams]

>Check this out:  Same configuration:  Reboot into stock kernel, and samba 
>works. So, I recompile MY kernel (2.4.16) again, and add more.  Doesn't 
>work.  Recompile again, adding just about everything I would ever need. No 
>dice.  Get linux-2.4.17 from another box, compile it like I do normally, 
>and it worksl ike a gem.

Set "debug level = 10" and restart samba.  Look in the log.  This is how
*ALL* samba problems are solved.    You'll almost certainly find it
grumbling about something quite specific.

Also do a "netstat -apn" to see what is listening where.

Use ipchains and iptables to make sure you don't have any firewall rules
defined.  One annoying thing about current installs is they let people
setup a firewall (high, medium, low) which they promptly forget they
did.  Almost all the above crunch 137/139.

>I gues it's just one of those idiosyncrasies of linux

Phooey!  And spring comes after winter because Diana is released from
Hades to visit her mother on Olympus.