LinNeighborhood and Redhat 8.0

[Nick D'Angelo]

Hello,

I have two PC's virtually identical in hardware with RH8.0 and LinNeighborhood

However, one can browse our Winblows network and the other can not.
I have compared all the obvious files (well to me maybe) and they all look the same.

Any ideas?

[Steven E. Protter]

Make sure the IP addresses and hostnames are a little different.

Make sure the network mask on the ethernet card attached to the network is the same as the server you are trying to browse.

Consider the samba client as an alternative to LinNeighborhood, though I might not be on on things, they could be using samba to provide LinNeighborhood functionality.


Hmmm.. First two paragraphs useful, the rest, not so much.

P

[Nick D'Angelo]

Thanks.

The two machines have two defined IP addresses (not from DHCP) and two host names.

Nickd

[Steven E. Protter]

You'll need to dump the smb.conf files on the Linux boxes, make sure they are the same.

You may want to go through the smbpasswd process again for authorized users.

The same thing would be useful on the Windows boxes.

This is a brain twister.

P

[Trevor Lacey]

Make sure you've got your NetBIOS names configured in your config file, as that's what Lin/Network Neighborhood uses to browse with.

[Nick D'Angelo]

All,

I have actually, copied the working smb.conf file over to the 2nd machine and made the minor edits to 'customize' for that machine.

I restarted the smbd and nmbd daemons and now I can see the machine - well sort of - from the WIndows side of the network, if I go to entire network, I see the linux PC, but when I try to connect to it, it comes back \\linuxpc is not accessible
The network path was not found.

?

[charlie_20]

beter late then never..

You have an premmision problem..
use chmod 777 share (enter)

or edit the smb.conf with 777 file premmisions.
and make sure the same user as on the winblows box (administrator = added to the samba user database + unix user manager)

Then restart the 2 deamons and it should be working....

[Jerome Henry]

Even a r-xr-xr-x permission should be enough... (555).

I like jags, I feel it has less often this kind of unlogical differences between two (looking) similar machines.
Have a look at it :

http://jags.sourceforge.net/

J