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Are these PC's connected to 2 networks? I.E. all NIC A and all NIC B to 2 networks? If so you cant ping between them because they all have IP's belonging to different subnets. 1. NIC A:172.16.1.254 Mask:255.255.255.0 2. NIC A:172.16.2.254 Mask:255.255.255.0 3. NIC A:172.16.15.254...

look at: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html

Tx Packets --> 100% Collisions --> x% Close enough ?? Perfect performance means no collisions at all - a full duplex switched net should have no collisions. A repeated net with hubs or coax repeaters will have collisions - how many of them are acceptable depends on the current load of your...

Try to post the smb.conf (just leave out the comments ;-) ) that will make it easier to determine the source of the probem. If you can change the debug level to 3 and post the relevant part of the logs too. Can you see the Linux box in the network neighborhood ? What's the error message? Can you...

You are right - lots of broadcasts reduce network performance. I assume you are using switches to speed up your net but broadcasts are always transmitted to every port on a switch and that really affects the performance. I would use a protocol decoder to determine what that broadcasts are. Some...

IMHO a plain file/print server does not need dual Xeons, I'd rather invest in more RAM and a RAID 5. My experience is that the CPU load is not a big problem for a file server, RAM gives it more memory to cache the FS and a good RAID controller (or external RAID subsys) prevents a loss of data...

I can think of 2 possiblities: .) no file / print sharing on the Win98 box .) hosts allow - try to remove the host allow lines Try too look at: http://www.gouldfamily.org/oreilly/samba/ch11.htm Hans (aka Urgl)

If it's a name service problem try nmblookup -A ip-of-host to see if you can resolve the name. Please post your smb.conf and the output of smbclient -L localhost

Win98 uses encrypted passwords - use the regkey supplied with samba to set Win98 to cleartext passwords. Set wins support = yes in your smb.conf to resolve the name service problems.

You are basically right - samba will do the trick. For Win98 WS set in your smb.conf the following values: encrypt passwords = yes wins support = yes Use the IP of your redhat server as WINS server in your TCP settings. Another option would be to use marsnew (IIRC) to emulate a novell server...

Sorry George for not replying earlier but I had a lot of work during the last days. I will try to duplicate your setup with a new Suse 7.1 and samba 2.0.7. One thing you could try in the meantime is to set the password level in the smb.conf to a value larger than your password length - that...

AFAIK ping uses DNS name resolution and not nmb so a simple ping will not work. You could try to use smbclient -L to check if a service is running and if samba resolves the name to the correct IP. Hans

If you want to directly connect 2 PC's you have to use a crossover cable. Tale a look at the pinouts of the 2 cables - I think one of them is a crossover cable and the other one is straight through. For a Ethernet cable the important pins are: 1-1 2-2 3-3 6-6 for a straight through cable and 1-3...

How did you test the resolving? Did you try to use smbclient? Hans

I think the first thing to do is to have a WINS server. Just uncomment the line wins support = yes in your smb.conf and restart samba. On your workstations add the IP of red10 as WINS server (restart as usual ;-) ) Are the other services (Apache / FTP) accessible? Just try http://192.168.0.104...

This is really strange George. Did you restart samba completely ? I noticed that samba sometimes does not reread the passwords if you just send a HUP, I tried that here and changed my password and sent a HUP but I could still log in with the old password. After stopping and restarting it worked...

Hi, can you see the shares on the server? Which clients are you using? Try out some of the things I suggested in the Simple LAN... thread. Hans

Hi George, I tried your smb.conf on my server (never try that with Windows ;-) ) and it did work, some of the parameters are wrong but that could be because I use samba 2.2.1a. Here's my version: [global] workgroup = linux security = user browseable = yes local master = yes encrypt...

Yes, please post the smb.conf. More questions: is the W2K PC member of workgroup simple? Did you make any changes to the registry in W2k for Samba? If you use \\kirtland in the Windows browser do you see all your defined shares ? I'm quite shure we will make it work. Hans

Hi George, no need to give up too soon you're almost there. As long as you get something back from samba you are not lost. Is there a linux user GeorgeK ? (case sensitive) Did you do: smbpasswd -a GeorgeK ?? Did you enter the IP of kirtland as WINS server ? THe fact that the samba server does...