topic Re: Samba problem/issue in Operating System - HP-UX

Samba problem/issue

Nick D'Angelo — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:54:07 GMT

Hello,

HPUX10.20
R390

My samba share does not appear on the Windows Network neighbourhood.

however, if I go to a command prompt on my PC and type net view \\server-name it shows me the shares.

Lastly, if in the same command prompt, I type in net view \\ip address, it returns an Error 5.

Any ideas?

Re: Samba problem/issue

Chuck J — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:11:08 GMT

Hello

The samba server is probably not registered using WINS or DNS and not appearing in your Network Neighbourhood.

Chuck J

Re: Samba problem/issue

Nick D'Angelo — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:55:19 GMT

Thanks, however.

What should I explicitly tell the WInblows support people what to register, the hostname or the samba sharename? I think it is the hostname, but I always second guessing these MS support personnel.

Nickd

Re: Samba problem/issue

Chuck J — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:25:50 GMT

If you are using DNS then you need to register the hostname. Then you can give out the complete hostname and sharename to Windows users:

\\yourserver.domain.com\sharename

Chuck J

Re: Samba problem/issue

Oleg Zieaev_1 — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:43:45 GMT

On top of above mentioned DNS checks, you may consider checking your smb.conf file for correct settings under [global] section. Make sure your system is not local master or uses dns proxy. I assume you have correct workgroup and netbios name.

Hope this helps.
0leg

Re: Samba problem/issue

John Dvorchak — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 22:33:19 GMT

Windows requires a WINS server when the client and server are not on the same IP subnet. Configure your HPUX SAMBA box to use the WINS server for your company. If unknown open a command prompt on your NT box and run ipconfig /all that will tell you the primary and/or secondary WINS server then feed that address into SAMBA. I use swat to configure samba lately although you could ferret out the smb.conf file and edit that directly. Then stop and start samba to get it registered on your LAN. It may actually take a few minutes to show up on the Window$ boxes when searching network neighborhood.

Re: Samba problem/issue

Niraj Kumar Verma — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 03:48:46 GMT

hi,

Have you specified the workgroup name under [ global ]

workgroup =

Niraj

Re: Samba problem/issue

Nick D'Angelo — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 17:34:16 GMT

Interesting.

I have confirmed that the IP address and the hostname (also the netbios name) is in the Windows Wins servers.

I still can not see anything using the net view \\ip address

Re: Samba problem/issue

Nick D'Angelo — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:03:57 GMT

should both nmbd and smbd be running?

Re: Samba problem/issue

John Palmer — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:11:06 GMT

nmbd is the Netbios Name Server and should be running.

Regards,
John

Re: Samba problem/issue

Nick D'Angelo — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:12:29 GMT

what about smbd? I do not see it running?

Re: Samba problem/issue

John Palmer — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:18:27 GMT

An instance of smbd gets started by inetd (see /etc/inetd.conf) whenever a client conects to a share.

If no clients are connected e.g. immediately after a reboot, you wouldn't expect to see any smbd processes.

Regards,
John