1. typo in ip, gateway, netmask, etc? 2. typo in smb.conf? 3. firewall misconfigured? swat or webmin for GUI configs, or ifconfig, netstat for CLI may help Tom Wurdock wrote: > Hello all, > > I have successfully installed debian on my main server here at home. I > forgot my name in the process, but the server is running. > > I have an issue that is strange to me and very much over my head. If I use > DHCP to configure my network, I can connect to my shares via samba from my > windows box. If I hard-code my ip, gatewat, subnet, nameservers etc, I > cannot connect. Wen hard-coded, I can get to the internet fine. Just Samba > drops out. Any ideas? > > TOm > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list