<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> <DIV>Hum, I'm not familiar with smbstatus or findsmb, can you access all the share with smbclient?</DIV> <DIV>What about the permissions of the shared windows printers, are they accessible to all?</DIV> <DIV> >>> krsnendu@orcon.net.nz 2006-03-01 02:12:06 >>> </DIV> <DIV style="COLOR: #000000">Everything is on the same subnet / network There are no routers or firewalls between them. I can ping by ip address. Guy-Michel Lessard wrote: > Are all the computers that you want to reach are all in the same > broadcast network? > Are there any routers or firewalls setup between them? > The fact that you cannot ping them by name may only be a name > resolution problem, can you ping them by IP? > > > > >>> krsnendu@orcon.net.nz 2006-02-27 21:30:44 >>> > I am having problems printing to printers attached to windows computers > on the network. > > Behind this problem seems to be some SMB inconsistencies. > When I go to Nautilus or Konqueror I can correctly browse all the > computers and shares in the workgroup. > But when I type findsmb from the command line I can only see k12ltsp, > office and one teacher's laptop is shown 4 times. > It shows twice for each ip address (wireless and wired). My laptop is > not shown and one other teachers laptop is not shown although they show > fine in nautilus. > When I go to set up a printer using printconfig-gui I try to browse for > my laptop but it is not shown. Only the ones shown by findsmb are > listed. I tried entering the share info directly by that didn't work > either. > I can ping my computer because I have listed it in etc/hosts > I cannot ping any other computers by name even though they are listed > under findsmb. > > When I type smbstatus my computer is listed but it says $IPC whereas the > other computers say School Int before it. I am not sure if that is > relevant or not. > > Hope someone can point me in the right direction to try to work this out. > > I am using K12ltsp 4.2.1 > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > K12OSN@redhat.com > <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> > For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >K12OSN mailing list >K12OSN@redhat.com ><A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> >For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> > _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN@redhat.com <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> </DIV></BODY></HTML>