windows machines can't see linux box- any help appreciated
Hello list, I am running about 4 linux machines and 2 windows machines in my lab at the university. I set up samba and linneighborhood and I can see and access files on the windows machines with no problem. The problem is that my windows machines can't see the linux computers. If I ping the linux machines they are able to find them, but if I try to do "find computer" or "browse local network" in windows then the computer isn't found. I did a bit of research on this and I found a post saying that there is a variable in the /etc/rc.conf file SETDUMMYVAR=yes that should be changed to NO. Seems that the rc.conf has become /etc/sysconfig in Suse, if I open the sysconfig editor and search for that variable I can't find it. Is it called something else now, or am I just not looking in the right place? I was also not clear if I need to add an account for the windows machine names themselves or simply a user. 1.) if the windows machine is called "win2000" then do I actually do adduser win2000? or can I do something like adduser guestuser? 2.) Do the IPs of the windows machines actually have to be in /etc/hosts ? We use DHCP and I can see all the local network from linux. 3.) I put "guest account= (here the guest account name) " in my smb.conf file and set writable=yes browsable=yes there as well . I guess I'll stop there and provide more information if anyone is able to survive this intolerably long email- sorry for the long post and my lack of knowledge! thanks, wayne
Have you defined WINS number? it is usually the IP number of your samba server. --- wayne king <king.812@osu.edu> wrote:
Hello list, I am running about 4 linux machines and 2 windows machines in my lab at the university. I set up samba and linneighborhood and I can see and access files on the windows machines with no problem. The problem is that my windows machines can't see the linux computers. If I ping the linux machines they are able to find them, but if I try to do "find computer" or "browse local network" in windows then the computer isn't found. I did a bit of research on this and I found a post saying that there is a variable in the /etc/rc.conf file SETDUMMYVAR=yes that should be changed to NO. Seems that the rc.conf has become /etc/sysconfig in Suse, if I open the sysconfig editor and search for that variable I can't find it. Is it called something else now, or am I just not looking in the right place? I was also not clear if I need to add an account for the windows machine names themselves or simply a user. 1.) if the windows machine is called "win2000" then do I actually do adduser win2000? or can I do something like adduser guestuser? 2.) Do the IPs of the windows machines actually have to be in /etc/hosts ? We use DHCP and I can see all the local network from linux. 3.) I put "guest account= (here the guest account name) " in my smb.conf file and set writable=yes browsable=yes there as well .
I guess I'll stop there and provide more information if anyone is able to survive this intolerably long email- sorry for the long post and my lack of knowledge!
thanks,
wayne
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You can only set writeable = yes and browseable = yes by a share. Also browseable = yes is default so you normally don't need it. If you don't want users to need to enter a password to see all shares, you'll have to set security = share (this is a general option). Now to define a share accessable by a guest add this: [sharename here] path = pathname here guest ok = yes write ok = yes (if you want to have the share writeable, write ok = no is default. Also make sure the workgroup is set correctly and that nmb and smb are being loaded at start up. You can enable them in the runlevel editor in Yast2. Op vrijdag 7 maart 2003 12:51, schreef wayne king:
Hello list, I am running about 4 linux machines and 2 windows machines in my lab at the university. I set up samba and linneighborhood and I can see and access files on the windows machines with no problem. The problem is that my windows machines can't see the linux computers. If I ping the linux machines they are able to find them, but if I try to do "find computer" or "browse local network" in windows then the computer isn't found. I did a bit of research on this and I found a post saying that there is a variable in the /etc/rc.conf file SETDUMMYVAR=yes that should be changed to NO. Seems that the rc.conf has become /etc/sysconfig in Suse, if I open the sysconfig editor and search for that variable I can't find it. Is it called something else now, or am I just not looking in the right place? I was also not clear if I need to add an account for the windows machine names themselves or simply a user. 1.) if the windows machine is called "win2000" then do I actually do adduser win2000? or can I do something like adduser guestuser? 2.) Do the IPs of the windows machines actually have to be in /etc/hosts ? We use DHCP and I can see all the local network from linux. 3.) I put "guest account= (here the guest account name) " in my smb.conf file and set writable=yes browsable=yes there as well .
I guess I'll stop there and provide more information if anyone is able to survive this intolerably long email- sorry for the long post and my lack of knowledge!
thanks,
wayne
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