Re: [PLUG] Samba/DNS question

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

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kaze wrote:

> --> Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> -->
> --> > Working from this point of inquiry, I have diagnosed my problem.  The
> --> > reason I can't browse the Linux machine from the windows machine is
> --> > that nmbd refuses to load.  I can't get it to load from swat and I
> --> > can't get it to load from xterm.  It appears on boot that it
> --> is set to
> --> > load and fails.  No error messages.
> --> >
> --> > Any ideas how I can detect the reason it refuses to load.
> --> >
> --> > more info: when I load from the command line, it appears that
> --> the load
> --> > was successful, but then, when I check, it is not loaded.
> --> >
> -->
> --> Now that makes complete sense.  You NetBIOS name resolver will not load
> --> so Samba can't resolve names.  Have you checked /var/log/messages for
> --> clues?  Also, have you confirmed that smbd is actually starting
> --> successfully?
>
> Maybe try testparm
>
> testparm — check an smb.conf configuration file for internal correctness
>
> testparm [-s] [-h] [-v] [-L <servername>] [-t <encoding>] {config filename}
> [hostname hostIP]
>  
WORKED!!! Thanks to Eugene Smiley, Mike Leone, Sean Finney, and 
especially Paul and finally kaze who got me onto the solution.

testparm (run only with the -s parameter) told me that I could not set 
two wins parameters
<excerpt>
ERROR: both 'wins support = true' and 'wins server = <server>' cannot be 
set in the smb.conf file. nmbd will abort with this setting.
</excerpt>

I had wins support = true and 'wins server =<the IP address of the samba 
server> thinking that was what I had to do in order for the linux/samba 
server supply wins services to a network without an NT/2000/XP machine 
(the two windows machines are 9x). For some reason, every time I tried 
to blank out the wins server = IP address, it kept coming back (using 
swat), so I changed wins support to false, instead, and nmbd started 
successfully. I hopped on the windows machines, and right there in the 
network browser, the linux machine appeared.

Now I need to figure out what I am doing wrong trying to set up an HP 
Laserjet on one of the windows machines as a samba/cups printer so I can 
print to it from the linux machine. Maybe nmbd will solve this problem 
too, since the cups web interface (localhost:631) wouldn't show smb as 
an available port as the instructions said it should.

Last, I need to figure out why smbmount prompts me for a password, even 
though I provide one with the command's parameters. I am afraid to put 
it in fstab until I get this password thing resolved.

Thanks again to all. I don't know how I would do it without the people 
on this list.

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