[KLUG Members] Dancing with Samba and Old Gals

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Mark Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 16:15 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 14:26 -0500, Mark Jones wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 13:45 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>>>
>>>>Is the Samba server the DHCP provider to the Win9x box?  If so are you
>>>>providing a netbios-node-type?
>>>
>>>The router is the DHCP server. Would it be better for the samba server
>>
>>Can you set a netbios-node-type via the DHCP on the router?
> 
> 
> No.  I'm currently chatting with Linksys about the problem.  I may not
> have a definitive answer from them for days as it needs to be translated
> from Hindi.  However, in the process, I have discovered that the box has
> the ability to relay DHCP requests.
> 
> How difficult is it to set the samba box to be the dhcp server?  Also,
> the machine is only a PIII 200 w/128Mb.  Do I have enough horse power to
> handle both?  I suspect that I do but just wanted to check.
> 
> 
> 
>>>Samba know that netbios is running but I don't see anything about
>>>netbios on the router DHCP.
>>
>>Not surpising,  such things are usually pretty limited.  You get a lot
>>more options using the DHCP server provided on your LINUX box.  Or you
>>can set the netbios node type in the registry of the client.
> 
> 
> Is the netbios-node-type the problem in this or is it just a debugging
> step?  If it is the problem, then I probably need to switch DHCP over to
> the samba box.

I'm not sure I have a clear view of what is happening in your scenario.
 What, can you succesfully do with your Samba server?  Is the Win98
machine the only client that cannot connect?

Can you browse Samba shares from on the Samba server?  Are the smbd and
nbnd daemons running on the Samba server, and can you verify they are by
doing a 'netstat -wutpln' as root?

If all that checks out, then is there a firewall on the Samba server
that could be blocking the nbns and smb ports (135, 137, 139 and 445, I
think)?

Personally, I like to skip DHCP on small networks, and do static
addressing along with hosts and lmhosts files for name resolution -- I
find that kind of setup easier to troubleshoot and verify.  If you must
have DHCP, then installing it on your Samba server provides you more
flexibility -- if the Samba server is going to be up %100 of the time
that is.  What distro are you using for the Samba server?



> 
> Thoughts?
> Mark
> 
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