Thanx Raymond:-) Raymond Doetjes wrote:
RAY-> Probably you don't run the smbclient correct. (THIS ONE IS REALLY STRANGE IT DOESN'T USE A STANDARD UNC)
Try smbclient \\\\win95\\myshare That will work.
When I was first setting up smb, The smbclient commands worked as far as viewing the win95 services:-) But, I haven't tried that lately, been trying to mount the win95 shares on my "/mnt/win95/share" as nfs areas? Perhaps via samba, the shares don't show up as nfs areas?
Same goes for your windows 95. When you probably type net use x: \\linux\myshare it will make an X drive.
correct, that works just great, in fact, it seems that everything that I have set up as shares on the Linux box does come thru just great when I want to access those areas:-)The only real problem that I've been experiencing along those lines is that even though I have myself set up to logon to the Linux box with "root privileges" via samba, I still can't do anything as far as monitoring what is being accessed, unless I telenet in and use smbstatus. Then I can see what shares are being accessed and all that good stuff:-) But, I am able to write files in areas that other users are unable to write to (had to make some attrib changes to allow the rest of the clan to save files to some of the defined data areas:-)
Is there any advantage to having DNS lookup activated on the win95 machine? RAY-> Not really (Since SMB uses NetBios names)
DNS is a faster and more reliable method then the WINS name resolution (JUST AN OTHER MICROSOFT BUG!!!!), so if you have some spare time setup a DNS server on Linux.
I just got done playing with that, and you know something, I found it to be a pretty good challenge:-) Also started playing with named as well, finally got them both to at least work without erroring out, but still not sure on what to set up and what to ignore:-) After all, I've currently got only two machines on the network:-)
y-> Don't go and fiddle around with LMHOSTS. Just enter the WINS address of your Linux box. Of if you have setup DNS also DNS!!!
I've got that set up on the win95 box to look to my linux box as Wins Server, but now I get the error about no domain server available (I've got Samba running as both a local and global preferred server), but could not find anything on how to set up the Samba password file, or even where it is located:=(
RAY-> On monday I will send my SaMBa configuration file to you. (I got it at work, at home I don't use Windows anymore, so no need for SaMBa).
I would appreciate it, I would like to get the network working between Linux and Win95 before I throw another Joker on the fire:-) (See if it is possible to add OS/2 as well)
RAY-> There was another tip on this mailing list asswell. You might wanna throw away all network settings from your Win95 box. Then reinstall everything. Then also your netware error might be gone.
hehe, I've given that some consideration since that is basically how the folks where I bought the machine to get the sound card to work:-) They had to remove all the sound drivers and reinstall it to get the sound card to work:-( (I still have problems along those lines, but that is not very high on my priority list (tho it may on my kids:-)
Otherwise you might wanna re-install your windows completly. Because this is surelly a Windows PROBLEM
I have no doubts along those lines at all:-) And from what I've heard, win98 has even more problems;-0 -- cya l8r Leon McClatchey leonmcclatchey@homemail.com Linux User 78912 (Win95 Box) - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e