samba configuration utility does not load up

[W. Guy Thomas]

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 18:50 -0800, Roman Toledo wrote:
> I've been testing core 3 test 3 2.92 for a month now and never got
> around to using the samba configuration app that is under the 
> menu > system settings > server settings > samba.
> 
> this ystem is up2date as of 10/31/04. I used the above menu to load up
> the  
> "services" app to make sure  smb  and windbind are running in level 3 ,
> 4, and 5  (not sure if level 4 should as I don't know much about that
> level)
> 
> I made sure my sons machine is running and made sure samba is running
> on it, (suse 9.1) it can not see my machine and when I start konqueror
> in my machine and type  smb:// his machines name it comes back with it
> can not find it.
> 
> I also got a message when I clicked on local networks saying I needed
> lisa, so I opened a terminal and started lisa, now I see a bunch of
> local 127.x.x.x and see my box FED777  but do not see my son's.
> 
> I'm not sure If I've done something to break it(probably), since I've
> spent my time learnig to properly compile the kernel so I could then
> compile the raid card driver's and read and write to it(ntfs was a
> disappointment can't write to it)
> 
> last I've done a lot of reading from the google pages and man samba and
> have learned a lot even how to mount and dismount NTFS volumes in
> Windows, something totally unknown to me until today ;) but have not
> succeeded in fixing samba.  I need to share my printer for the wife and
> son's machine.
> 
> all suggestions are deeply appreciated and my appologies for the long
> and winding story ;)
> 

can you manually mount it in a terminal?

try smbmount //servername/sharename /mnt/onyourfedorabox username

it should come back with a password to access the share.

at least this will tell you if samba itself is working.

hth

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=Guy
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