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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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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