I think that I am having the same problem on my samba installation. It is not appearing on the network at all even with a very crude samba.conf containing just the netbios name and the workgroup? If however I set up the file with OS = 16 or above, no other machine on the network can log on. How do you get a linuc box to act as a simple file/print server in an existing NT network? I have followed samples word for word from several publications with no success. Also, I have squid running the proxy for the school and it works quite well. However, the intranet site is on another server. At the moment, the workstations appear to hang (Win 95/IE5) while looking for the home page. If I set it to not look for this IP (the server) it works fine. I am not doing this for every student! If I put NO_PROXY for <server IP> in the rc.conf file, will this do the same thing? Do I need something in the squid.conf? Appreciation in advance,

Paul

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From: "Bill Antonia" To: "suse schools" Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:52:14 +0100 Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Samba problem

Could there be conflict with the domain Windows NT master server? You can only have one master domain server within a domain. Is samba set up to be subordinate, taking domain users and passwords from a domain master? If not, there may be your problem.

Bill Antonia Beacon Community College Home e-mail bill@beaconhillcott.freeserve.co.uk Work e-mail at@beacon.e-sussex.sch.uk

----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Williams To: Suse Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 5:55 PM Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Samba problem

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I've sent a couple of messages (acknowledgements of help received) to

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list but they don't seem to have appeared. I'm trying again through desperation in the hope that this gets through.

Well, the start of term approaches and my task over the holiday was to setup new fileserving services. I have setup 2 SuSE 6.4 based file servers using Samba. One is for storage of work and the other for delivering applications. They work fine at home on a small 10baseT network and I can access a W95 client and an Acorn client.

However, at school they behave in a very strange way. The main fileserver boots ok with no apparent errors. However, I cannot connect to it

The main thing you do with the samba server is to change the security from user to server and add a line so the user names and passwords can be validated by the domain master. These are the only changes required from the default setup apart from changing the workgroup name to the name of your domain. security = server password server = <IP address of the NT domain master server> Also you must create the users locally on the Linux box. The thing I do is to create them without passwords but then edit the /etc/shadow file and put * in where the encrypted password would be. This allows the users to log into the Linux box through samba but disallows telnet logins. All validation is done via the NT server. The second problem I will have to think about a bit more. Regards Bill Antonia Beacon Community College Home bill@beaconhillcott.freeserve.co.uk Work at@beacon.e-sussex.sch.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Taylor To: Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 5:13 PM Subject: RE: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Samba problem this through

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samba from any client even though smbstatus reports everything ok. If I restart Samba it works ok. I am very concerned that there is some underlying problem which is going to surface when the system is more heavily loaded.

Something similar happens if I disconnect the server and try to connect from a client and then reconnect the server. Smbstatus says everything is ok but it doesn't work until it is restarted.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Dave Williams ICT Coordinator Derby Moor CS

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