SAMBA configuration - Machine name
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri Mar 17 05:21:03 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 19:58 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> > I've read all the help available on SAMBA available from GNOME.
> >
> > I've got an MSDOS (6.0) machine with MSCLIENT over TCP/IP running
> > on it, and a Fedora Core 2 machine, using static IP addresses.
> > Each machine can successfully ping the other. But when I try
> > to establish a share connection from the MSDOS machine to the
> > Linux machine, the MSDOS machine cannot find the Linux machine.
> >
> > JMCCARTY at AMD586 Q:\NET> net use * \\presario\tmp
> > [several second pause]
> > Error 53: The computer name specified in the network path cannot
> > be located.
>
> Not much of a Samba user, but when I stuggled through getting it working
> I found Swat was helpful. Some things only worked properly when
> windbindd was running, check
>
> service winbind status
----
primary usage of winbindd is to obtain users/groups from Windows Domain
Controller as if they were local accounts
secondary usage of winbindd is to support Windows concept of nested
groups.
Neither apply to David's case...move on
Craig
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