[KLUG Members] Dancing with Samba and Old Gals

[Mark Jones]

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 18:55 -0500, greenproc wrote:
> 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?

Hopefully this will clear things up.  I have 3 WinXP, 1 Win98 and 1 Tivo
on the network outside of a two servers.  The 3 XP and the Tivo machines
all talk to the samba server just fine, including some rudimentary
printing.  It's the Win98 machine that has the problem.  Before the
samba, it networked with the XP machines just fine.  With the samba
server, it only sees itself in the "Network Neighborhood"; it doesn't
see the samba server nor does it see the other XP machines.

> 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?
> 
Samba appears to be running just fine.  Here is the netstat output:
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:445             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     6823/smbd
udp        0      0 192.168.15.101:137      0.0.0.0:*                          6820/nmbd
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:137             0.0.0.0:*                          6820/nmbd
udp        0      0 192.168.15.101:138      0.0.0.0:*                          6820/nmbd
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:138             0.0.0.0:*                          6820/nmbd

> 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)?
No there is no firewall on the server.  All the other machines can see
it just fine.

> 
> Personally, I like to skip DHCP on small networks, and do static
> addressing along with hosts and lmhosts files for name resolution -- 

I really can't do this because all 3 XP machines are laptops which
travel quite a bit.

> 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?

I am using Ubuntu 5.10.