Fedora/Windows network

[Antonio Montagnani]

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,

same modifications were already running but not the

option netbios-name-servers 192.168.0.1

in my dhcpd.conf file

Tnx a lot


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