Samba won't dance (more info)

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Apr 15 16:20:06 UTC 2008


Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 07:17 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>> you don't actually expect people to parse that do you?
> 
> No, I really expect the original poster to post theirs, and have it
> dissected and sorted out.  Rather than try to fit someone else's
> configuration (mine) to theirs.
> 
>> But I'm telling you that if you can't reliably ping and nmblookup
>> (which is somewhat similar to a ping), you're wasting your time here.
> 
> I agree.  As I said, and you've said before, it sounds like more basic
> networking problems need resolving before fiddling with Samba.  Though I
> was also saying it can be done.  And that Windows doesn't seem to work
> particularly better using its own system, than Fedora does using Samba.
> 
> I don't recall whether Claude said whether he was pinging by IP
> addresses, or trying to use host or domain names.
> 
One thing to keep in mind is that the machine may be configured to 
not respond to pings. It is not as good of a test as it used to be.

Mikkel
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