I'm trying to set up samba on Suse 6.1 to enanble file/print sharing with my Windows based PC. I have set up all the shares as necessary and set all permissions and any administrative options correctly for my set up according to their suggestions. However, My Windows machine will not find my Linux machine in Network neighbourhood, or by using find computer. I was able to set up my printer, however, and get it to print out. Any suggestions? <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm trying to set up samba on Suse 6.1 to enanble file/print sharing with my Windows based PC. I have set up all the shares as necessary and set all permissions and any administrative options correctly for my set up according to their suggestions. However, My Windows machine will not find my Linux machine in Network neighbourhood, or by using find computer. I was able to set up my printer, however, and get it to print out. Any suggestions?</FONT></DIV></BODY>
try forcing samba to export a netbios name - if it doesn't do this Network neighborhood may not see it. Add "Netbios name = " and whatever name you want in the [Globals] section of smb.conf, either manually or by swat/webmin. Don't forget to restart smbd after. On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, James Smith wrote:
I'm trying to set up samba on Suse 6.1 to enanble file/print sharing with my Windows based PC. I have set up all the shares as necessary and set all permissions and any administrative options correctly for my set up according to their suggestions. However, My Windows machine will not find my Linux machine in Network neighbourhood, or by using find computer. I was able to set up my printer, however, and get it to print out. Any suggestions?
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James Smith wrote:
I'm trying to set up samba on Suse 6.1 to enanble file/print sharing with my Windows based PC. I have set up all the shares as necessary and set all permissions and any administrative options correctly for my set up according to their suggestions. However, My Windows machine will not find my Linux machine in Network neighbourhood, or by using find computer. I was able to set up my printer, however, and get it to print out. Any suggestions?
This could be because all of the network broadcasts that your computer is making are being caught by the dummy network device on your computer. Make sure that the SETUPDUMMYDEV variable is set to "no" (without quotes) in your /etc/rc.config. Hope that helps, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
I'm trying to set up samba on Suse 6.1 to enanble file/print sharing with my Windows based PC. I have set up all the shares as necessary and set all permissions and any administrative options correctly for my set up according to their suggestions. However, My Windows machine will not find my Linux machine in Network neighbourhood, or by using find computer. I was able to set up my printer, however, and get it to print out. Any suggestions?
This could be because all of the network broadcasts that your computer is making are being caught by the dummy network device on your computer. Make sure that the SETUPDUMMYDEV variable is set to "no" (without quotes) in your /etc/rc.config.
I found that mapping a network drive on your windows machine to the Samba shares also keeps the linux machine visible in network neighborhood. Christopher Reimer -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
James Smith wrote:
I'm trying to set up samba on Suse 6.1 to enanble file/print sharing with my Windows based PC. I have set up all the shares as necessary and set all permissions and any administrative options correctly for my set up according to their suggestions. However, My Windows machine will not find my Linux machine in Network neighbourhood, or by using find computer. I was able to set up my printer, however, and get it to print out. Any suggestions?
This could be because all of the network broadcasts that your computer is making are being caught by the dummy network device on your computer. Make sure that the SETUPDUMMYDEV variable is set to "no" (without quotes) in your /etc/rc.config.
Hope that helps, Chris
Yup that sure did work, many thanks -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
I have exactly the same problem with one of my servers. One machine is 6.1 based with a hand rolled 2.2.12 kernel, and that doesn't show up in Network Neighbourhood. The other is 6.3 based, with the stock SuSE kernel and that does show up. Both use the same config file (with the odd very slight tweak such as netbios name, etc). I can still map a network drive from the 6.1 machine by naming it explictly, and that's all I needed, so I stopped worrying about it. Still a bit odd though. The really annoying thing is that I saw the solution to this some time ago, thought "Oh, that's the problem!", then forgot both what the soultion was and where I saw it! I seem to remember that you needed something compiled into the kernel.
James Smith wrote:
I'm trying to set up samba on Suse 6.1 to enanble file/print sharing with my Windows based PC. I have set up all the shares as necessary and set all permissions and any administrative options correctly for my set up according to their suggestions. However, My Windows machine will not find my Linux machine in Network neighbourhood, or by using find computer. I was able to set up my printer, however, and get it to print out. Any suggestions?
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