Fedora/Windows network

[Antonio Montagnani]

Craig White ha scritto/wrote il giorno/on 19/02/2005 18:14:

>On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:38 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
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>>Craig White ha scritto/wrote il giorno/on 19/02/2005 16:29:
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>>>On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 09:12 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
>>> 
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>>>      
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>>>>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???
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>>>----
>>>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
>>>
>>> 
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>>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:
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>>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
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>
Craig

Tnx....now it works.
I e-mail to you as copy as strangely my messages to the list sometimes 
appear with a lag up to 8 hours.....??? why???

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 Antonio M.

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