Samba issue - Newbie looking for some advice

[Jeff Blasius]

I had a similar problem. The not so obvious solution was to check or 
uncheck ( I can't rember which now) the "prefer wins over dns" check 
box. This option was under the network properties menu and I think the 
advanced tab on the windows 2000 box.
            -jeff



Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:

>
> Greetings Ronnie,
>
> Boyd, Ronnie wrote:
>
>>  Hi folks
>>
>>  Wonder if anyone could advise me on a red hat/windows 2000 network
>>  issue? I have a single red hat 9 box, which has a directory I would
>>  like shared to 6 windows 2000 pro workstations.
>>
>>
>> > Samba has been installed already.
>>
>>
>>
>> > When I testparm the smb.conf file, it passes ok.
>
>
> A good sign it is .
>
>> > If I search for the linux box via windows network neighborhood, it
>> > finds it quickly enough, and states that it is a samba server.
>
>
> This means that the Windows box can find the Linux Box correctly .
>
>
>>  But I cannot access anything on the red hat box, nothing at all, the
>>  usual message is No network path found
>
>
> The Windows Box returns the error "No network path found " whenever
> you try to access something on the Linux box .
> While trying to setup Samba myself between a Fedora Core 1 machine and
> a Windows 2000 machine , i was getting the "No network path found" 
> message
> from the Fedora Core 1 machine  whenever i was forgeting to setup a 
> route between
> the Fedora Core  1 machine and the Windows 2000 machine .
> Perhaps you have the same problem .
>
> In order to verify that there is a proper route configured between your 2
> boxes try to ping the Windows box from the Linux machine and then
> try to ping the Linux box from the Windows machine , both have to
> be successfull with ping times in the range of 100 - 200 milliseconds
> or even slower .
>
>
>>  When I try to map to a share i.e. net use l: \\LinuxServer\Share I
>>  also get this error message: No service is operating at the
>>  destination network endpoint on the remote system
>>
>>  I can't even net view redhat box
>
>
> Please read above . If the above problem ( with the network route )
> exists these all are reasonable .
>
>>
>>  I know there are loads of samba trouble-shooting sites, as I've been
>>  to a whole bunch of them,. but none have helped so far.
>
>
> If  it is a network route problem then the Samba forums can't help .
>
>>
>>  On the linux box, if I run smbclient /root/files/alias it comes up
>>  with something like this:
>>
>>  Password: session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
>>
>>  Which I think means that samba is working ok on the box, but there is
>>  a user account issue somewhere. That doesn't bother me too much, I
>>  can search out a resolution for that.
>
>
> The user account assumption is correct . It is one of the possibilities ,
> but again if there is a network route problem then you will get the same
> message because the Linux box will be unable to find the Windows 2000 box
> in order to login and therefore you will have a login faillure .
>
>
>
>>  But when I do this from a command line on my windows box: telnet
>>  redhatbox 139 it says that connection was refused. That means I think
>>  that samba is NOT working ok.
>
>
> Samba is not operating on port 139 . The response is reasonable .
>
>>
>>  The smb.conf file is fairly simple, nothing fancy in it. There is an
>>  encrypt passwords = yes entry to suit the windows boxes
>
>
> The encrypt passwords = yes options is not generating your problems .
>
> Kind Regards,
>  Kostas
>