Fedora/Windows network

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:38 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> Craig White ha scritto/wrote il giorno/on 19/02/2005 16:29:
> 
> >On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 09:12 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I am absolutely confused...
> >>
> >>For example I have a FEDORA pc and a Windows (MAXDATA name on the 
> >>network running XP professional, but similar results with XP Home 
> >>machines) connected.
> >>
> >>1) If I issue the command findsmb i get:
> >>                                *=DMB
> >>                                +=LMB
> >>IP ADDR         NETBIOS NAME     WORKGROUP/OS/VERSION
> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>192.168.0.1     FEDORA        *[FEDORA] [Unix] [Samba 3.0.10-1.fc3]
> >> 
> >>no trace of the Windows machine....
> >>
> >>2) I issue the command:
> >> smbclient -L //MAXDATA
> >>Password:
> >>Domain=[MAXDATA] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
> >>
> >>        Sharename       Type      Comment
> >>        ---------       ----      -------
> >>        Lavoro          Disk
> >>        IPC$            IPC       IPC remoto
> >>        print$          Disk      Driver della stampante
> >>        SharedDocs      Disk
> >>        Musica          Disk
> >>        ADMIN$          Disk      Amministrazione remota
> >>        Immagini        Disk
> >>        C$              Disk      Condivisione predefinita
> >>        Software        Disk
> >>        Musicaok        Disk
> >>Domain=[MAXDATA] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
> >>
> >>        Server               Comment
> >>        ---------            -------
> >>
> >>        Workgroup            Master
> >>        ---------            -------
> >>
> >>3) If i digit the command smb:/// in Nautilus I see my Workgroup, then I 
> >>click on it and I see the list of the connected machines, I click on my 
> >>MAXDATA machine and I see the shares, but when I click on a shared 
> >>folders, Nautilus freezes, no password request....and I have to kill 
> >>Nautilus by System Monitor...
> >>
> >>4) If I digit smb://192.168.0.5/ (that is IP number of MAXDATA) 
> >>everything works fine..I can access my shared folders through Nautilus, 
> >>copy, delete files, etc, etc.....
> >>
> >>5) If I digit smb://MAXDATA/  I get the poor results like point 3.
> >>
> >>Samba shares on my Fedora machine are fine and seen on all network
> >>What am I missing???
> >>    
> >>
> >----
> >a wins server and windows machines that find it
> >
> >on fedora system, in smb.conf add 
> >wins support = yes
> >
> >on windows systems, add the ip address of the fedora machine to the wins
> >server section in the 'Advanced' tab of the TCP/IP properties of the
> >network adaptors or if you are using dhcp, add this info to the wins
> >section of your dhcp server. Restart samba on the fedora machine
> >'service smb restart' and you should be able to browse Windows
> >Networking in a short amount of time.
> >
> >Craig
> >
> >  
> >
> Craig
> If i stop dhcpd daemon, I can surf my windows shared folders, otherwise 
> no!!!! any hint
> I post my samba.conf & dhcpd.conf files.My samba server and dhcpd derver 
> is 192.168.0.1....my network has some fixed IP's and some IP's assigned 
> by DHCP:
> 
> 
> dhcpd.conf file:
> option netbios-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
> ddns-hostname "192.168.0.1";
> option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
> ddns-updates on;
> ddns-update-style interim;
> ignore client-updates;
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I would have - among other things...
        option netbios-node-type 8;
        option netbios-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
        option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
        option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
        option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
        option routers 192.168.0.254;

Craig