[SOLVED]Re: Samba (DNS?) problem

[Santiago Cepas <scepas ya com>]

Dumb, dumb, dumb.
It seems I had the firewall activated and was blocking the proper
functioning of samba. 

I've disabled the firewall for the momment, until I find the time to
finetune it configuration.

Hope this may help someone not to make the same mistake!

Here is where I found the pointer:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/diagnosis.html


> > >  smbclient -L unit21
> > > Password:
> > > Domain=[UNIT21] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.3-5]
> > >  
> > >         Sharename       Type      Comment
> > >         ---------       ----      -------
> > >         samba           Disk
> > >         IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Samba Server)
> > >         ADMIN$          IPC       IPC Service (Samba Server)
> > > Domain=[UNIT21] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.3-5]
> > >  
> > >         Server               Comment
> > >         ---------            -------
> > >  
> > >         Workgroup            Master
> > >         ---------            -------
> > >         CYBES4
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > That's better.  hmmm, not sure why the other one did not work.  Did you
> > take out the lanman auth and lm announce lines?  I am wondering if that
> > has something to do with this problem and the fact you can not see it on
> > the network from a windows box?
> 
> Yep. I took those out but nothing changed.
> 
> 
> > 
> > > Don't have a wins server. Wonder if i should setup a wins server in my
> > > linux box.
> > > 
> > 
> > Should really not be a problem unless you are trying to browse through a
> > router to another lan segment.
> > 
> 
> not the case.
> 
> > > Anyway. I tried again the \\192.168.200.125 trick on windows but didn't
> > > get through. 
> > > 
> > > Running out of steam here...
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm running out of ideas also.  Hopefully someone else can pick up the
> > torch.  :)
> > 
> Thanks a lot anyway. I'll keep trying...
> 
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> > 
> > DYSLEXICS OF THE WORLD, UNTIE! 
> > 
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