On Saturday 23 October 2010 06:36:23 Michael S. Dunsaavage wrote:
On 10/23/2010 4:02 AM, Bob Williams wrote:
Where it's falling over is in the Windows Vista incarnation,
which refuses to see any other machines on the LAN. Very narcissistic!;) I feel sure that if I could get the Windows sharing working, I would then be able to see the shared printer.
We are all like Vista, Bob. You can see house, but when you call people inside and no one answers, you can wait and call later. Vista is doing this for sure. I'm not sure for time interval, but it is quite frequent and, so far I know, it doesn't have built in stop after there is no 10 answers :) Funny is that Samba and CUPS are doing the same if set that way.
Do you have windows on the same work group? Are you allowing both smb and nmb in the suse firewall? Can you connect via the machine IP instead of hostname? Did you add the users w/ smbpasswd -a <username> ?
So, after all Michael said is fine, Linux machine is still not there for smb service if it doesn't announce it understands smb. Part of each Linux machine is firewall that doesn't let broadcast announcement trough. Everything is fine, broadcast packets fly on each side of the firewall, but nothing trough the wall. YaST Control Center >> Security and Users >> Firewall In Firewall Configuration: There is is list of functions on left side, select Broadcasting. Click on "Add" button that will start new configuration window, where you can choose service which you want to enable from drop down list. Samba browsing is the one that you want. Additionally you can limit network scope that will be used. Default is 0/0 which is any network. This is fine for basic test is it working, but you probably want to limit broadcasts to local network. In my case that would be 192.168.1.0/24 . Don't forget to tell firewall in Vista machine the same. Firewalls for windows are aware of broadcast importance, so chance that they will block that traffic is small. BTW, answer on question why is that not enabled by default is security. There was talk some time ago, but without volunteers that will learn how to change YaST Firewall there will be no change any soon. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org