Re: [TCLUG:2631] Samba setup

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

My experience is that you don't need to setup lmhosts. When I try to
connect on the linux box to a WIN95 samba share, it looks up the name
(i.e. -L name or //name) in /etc/lmhosts, gets an error because the file
doesn't exist and then tries DNS. Since I have everyone's windows name the
same as their DNS name, this works fine. 

Good Luck,

Ben

P.S. I tried to get the win95 clients use user level sharing with a
user/password list via my linux samba box, but the win95 always complained
that the list was temporarily unavailable. Any ideas? (tried on saba linux
with both security = user and share) 

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Richard Seymour wrote:

> What is in your /etc/hosts file? And on your Windows box, do you have
> c:\windows\hosts and c:\windows\lmhosts files? What's in them?
> 
> On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Paul & Paule Hocker wrote:
> > server. It seems like I have things setup correctly. However, whenever I do:
> > 
> > smbclient -L myserver
> > 
> > it just hangs there and does nothing. If is do:
> > 
> > smbclient -L 90.0.0.1
> > 
> > it works like it should. I can actuall assign drives on my Win98 box using:
> > 
> > net view y: \\90.0.0.1\tmp
> > 
> > but cannot use the actual server name.
> > 
> > I'm thinking that I have forgotten something in my smb.conf, or perhaps I
> > have my network setup incorrectly. Any ideas out there???
> 
> --
> Richard Seymour, Anarchy Software, Inc.
> anarchy@anarchysoftware.com
> 
> The opinions expressed are those of my employer, not my own.
> 
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