I have a home network that is comprised of several XP machines (DHCP) a win7 machine (DHCP) and an Suse server ver 11.4 with a static IP (192.168.1.48).
I have been struggling off and on for quite a while to get shares to work between windows and linux and finally am starting to get close. I have samba set up followind Swerdna’s tutorials
# Date: 2011-03-01
[global]
workgroup = kings
netbios name = fishserver
name resolve order = bcast hosts lmhosts wins
server string =""
passdb backend = tdbsam
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
cups options = raw
use client driver = Yes
map to guest = Bad User
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
os level = 65
usershare allow guests = Yes
usershare max shares = 100
usershare onwer only = False
[printers]
browseable = yes
path = /var/tmp
printable = yes
create mask = 0700
browseable = no
guest ok = yes
[linux drive]
comment = this is a share point
path = /home/samba
read only = No
guest ok = yes
[brother2140]
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
guest only = yes
and can see the linux share if I enter the linux machines IP address in the network places window for the windows machines. The linux box is set up with the same workgroup name as the windows machines but never shows up as one of the workgroup machines.
I recently tried some suggested console commands and found that the nmb broadcast address is being issued to 192.168.3.255 even though all ip addresses on my network are using 192.168.1.x addresses. I used the command nmblookup -f AMDHP where the machine AMDHP has an address of 192.168.1.x supplied via DHCP from my router. I think this is why the network neighborhood name of the linux machine is missing. Where is the broadcast address derived and how can I fix it? Any help is appreciated.
FYI - I can access the linux shares via IP address just fine.
Thanks,
Dan
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:46:01 +0000, catfish1968 wrote:
> broadcast address is being issued to 192.168.3.255
This is correct.
“Broadcast” is an address that all machines use. With a network subnet
of 192.168.3.x, the broadcast address is 192.168.3.255.
That’s how broadcasts on an IP subnet work.
Jim
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For additional info on using Samba, have a look at these two blogs:
Samba S.W.A.T. - Samba Web Administration Tool Setup for openSUSE: https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/jdmcdaniel3/samba-swat-samba-web-administration-tool-setup-opensuse-76/
AND
SWAT - Samba Web Administration Tool - Setup & Creation Script - 1.04: https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/jdmcdaniel3/swat-samba-web-administration-tool-setup-creation-script-1-03-105/
I suggest taking a new look at some other smb.conf examples as shown in my blogs. For manual edits of that smb.conf file, have a look here:
SYSEdit - System File Editor - Version 1.50: https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/jdmcdaniel3/sysedit-system-file-editor-version-1-00-60/
Thank You,
“Broadcast” is an address that all machines use. With a network subnet
of 192.168.3.x, the broadcast address is 192.168.3.255.
I’m confused then, since my network addresses are on 192.168.1.x the broadcast would still work from a different subnet?
Thanks,
Dan
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:46:01 +0000, catfish1968 wrote:
> I’m confused then, since my network addresses are on 192.168.1.x the
> broadcast would still work from a different subnet?
Ah ha, I hadn’t noticed the subnet was different - so in that case, no,
unless your netmask isn’t 255.255.255.0.
On the box in question, what’s the output of:
/sbin/ifconfig eth0
?
(Please put it between code tags)
Jim
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ok, thought something was funny lol.
Here’s the output
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:5B:A8:57
inet addr:192.168.1.48 Bcast:192.168.3.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:147982 errors:0 dropped:25 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:128961 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:22334127 (21.2 Mb)
TX bytes:195247570 (186.2 Mb)
Interrupt:17
Thanks for looking
ok, saw the net mask was wrong to after changing to /24 the broadcast looks correct. Guess I need to research how the newmask changes the broadcast range, seems a little goofy but at least that looks right now.
Thanks for aiming me in the right direction.
Dan
woo hooo. For the first time ever my Linux machine shows up in the network neighborhood. Even my printer share is showing up. Very cool.
Not sure why my netmask was set the way it was but definate lesson learned.
Thanks,
Dan
uh oh, woo hoo’d too soon. Now the Linux box can’t browse the internet. Why would the netmask change ruin that??
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Dan
ok, woo hoo back. not sure what was going on but i needed a couple reboots for things to settle down. I now have internet back and samba still works.
Thanks
Open up terminal and post a new result here with the right mask, use the correct device name of your network connection if not eth0:
/sbin/ifconfig eth0
The netmask determines what part of the IP address sets the subnet and what part sets the node address on the subnet. The mask is some number of 1’s set from left to right. The more ones you set, the more subnet’s and the fewer nodes you can have while the fewer 1’s you set, the fewer subnet’s you can have, but the more nodes each subnet can have. A /24 is the same as 255.255.255.0, but look at it from being 1 & 0’s with 11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000 or 24 ones are set. Now consider a 255.255.252.0 is a 11111111.11111111.11111100.00000000 where the subnet’s are reduced by a factor of 4 while nodes are increased also by a factor of 4. But the real story is that the subnet’s don’t match and communication will not work properly.
Thank You,
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:06:01 +0000, catfish1968 wrote:
> ok, thought something was funny lol.
>
> Here’s the output
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:5B:A8:57
>
> inet addr:192.168.1.48 Bcast:192.168.3.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
>
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>
> RX packets:147982 errors:0 dropped:25 overruns:0 frame:0
>
> TX packets:128961 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>
> RX bytes:22334127 (21.2 Mb)
> TX bytes:195247570 (186.2 Mb)
>
> Interrupt:17
> --------------------
>
>
> Thanks for looking
That makes perfect sense then - you’ve got a mask of 255.255.252.0, which
means that the broadcast address is correct for that subnet. 
Jim
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:56:01 +0000, catfish1968 wrote:
> ok, woo hoo back. not sure what was going on but i needed a couple
> reboots for things to settle down. I now have internet back and samba
> still works.
>
> Thanks
Awesome, glad to see you got it resolved.
Jim
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