Samba problems

Matthias Bauw mailing-lists at dragoneyedesign.net
Mon Aug 16 13:23:28 UTC 2004


Christopher K. Johnson wrote:

> Matthias Bauw wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> I am trying to connect my 2 windows 2000 pc's to my Linux Fedora Core 2
>> I have been trying all day but I made no progress.
>>
>> The problem is that the windows pc's just don't see the Samba domain.
>>
>> I have tried to ping the other pc's from my linux system but that 
>> doesn't work either. It seems like Linux doesn't see the other pc's.
>>
>> When I start linux I get an error message when initialising eth0. The 
>> system says that it can't retrieve IP information. I have configured 
>> the network settings using setup in the terminal. I have configured 
>> it to use DHCP which is present and running on that same machine.
>
>
> You must have a static address if you are running the DHCP server.  
> Getting a lease from yourself in this scenario will not work.
>
> Furthermore you need to verify that the windows PCs and the Linux one 
> have addresses in the same subnet, not different ones.  Depending on 
> how the windows systems are configured, whether your DHCP server is 
> working and reachable from our lan (check iptables rules for this 
> too), and the order in which the Linux and windows systems were 
> booted, the windows systems may have self-assigned addresses.
>
>>
>> Can anyone find a reason why the windows pc is constantly saying that 
>> the domain doesn't exist?
>
>
> Is iptables started?  If so it by default will block the ports samba 
> needs open for other systems to use it.
>
>>
>> thanks for the help
>>
>> Matt.
>>
>> P.S.: I have already tried to switch to static IP adresses, the error 
>> message at startup disappears but the problems remain...
>>
>>
>
>
ok Samba works fine now, I only have one problem. My Win2000 systems 
still can't connect to the internet, does anyone know wich config
changes I should do to allow the windows systems to use the internet 
connection?

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