in my company we have windows-xp peer-to-peer lan network (no active directory). addresses are assigned through DHCP and 2 DNS are hosted by an ISP. now my company wants a file server on linux. So i setup the Samba server with static IP which can bee seen on network but is not accessable. (Path not found error message).
what should i do for this communication we are not using WINS on Windows.
On Thu April 23 2009 04:46 pm, davesal wrote:
>
> in my company we have windows-xp peer-to-peer lan network (no active
> directory). addresses are assigned through DHCP and 2 DNS are hosted by
> an ISP. now my company wants a file server on linux. So i setup the
> Samba server with static IP which can bee seen on network but is not
> accessable. (Path not found error message).
> what should i do for this communication we are not using WINS on
> Windows.
>
>
davesal;
To use your Windows WINS server you will want these in the [Global] section
of /etc/samba/smb.conf:
wins server = <IP of WINS server>
name resolve order = wins bcast lmhosts host
NOTE: the “name resolve order” is the order that Samba will try to resolve
netbios names. Be sure to put “wins” first and the others in an order that
best suits your network.
Be sure to open your firewall for Samba and to add users with:
smbpasswd -a <username>
You might want to check this site for the basic principles:
http://www.swerdna.net.au/linux.html
If you are still having problems it might be helpful if you posted the
contents of /etc/samba/smb.conf; you can use place holders for any sensitive
settings.
–
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
If you’ve got only one subnet for all, i.e. you’re using what microsoft calls a workgroup, then broadcast name resolution is pretty good for linking network resources. How to set up a server for business purposes using broadcast name resolution is detailed here:
Samba Server and Suse / openSUSE: HowTo Configure a Professional File Server on a SOHO LAN
On Thu April 23 2009 05:16 pm, PV wrote:
> On Thu April 23 2009 04:46 pm, davesal wrote:
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>> what should i do for this communication we are not using WINS on
>> Windows.
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> davesal;
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davesal;
Please disregard my first post. I miss read your post and thought you WERE
using a WINS server. Very sorry for that.
–
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
Thanks Guys. yes we are using one subnet only.and we are not using WINS but lmhosts.
i,ve changed the TCP/IP option to NetBios over TCP/IP. so it might work. but i am going to look the SOHO lan Implementation. and in case of any problem then i,ll post it again.
regards