Samba connection errors

[HornedOne]

Hi,
I have set up samba on a linux machine running mandrake 8.1 and everything seems fine. The machine is on net 194.130.5.X, if I connect from the same netmask, all is ok. If I connect from another netmask I cannot connect to samba, it doesn't even ask me for a password, how can I get round this?

Thanks,

Mark

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

You would need an IP route from the other machine to the samba subnet and possibly wins/nmb name resolution.

Can you do a 'net view \\194.130.5.X' or ping the samba server ? If so, the ip routing should be OK. If not, you'd need to create a route ('route add ...' ) or set the default gateway. Can you describe the physical connection method ?

If it works with IP address but not servername then its a netbiosname resolution problem. You can either run the samba 'wins' server, nmbd or just put entries in the local windows LMHOSTS file which maps netbiosnames to IP addresses in a similar way to a HOSTS file.

Hope this helps

 

[marsd]

To access your samba server seamlessly across subnets
you must configure several things:
#1-Find out if there is a domain master browser for the
subnet(nmblookup -M)
If not.
Configure samba as the domain master browser with a global line:
domain master = yes
allow it to share its netbios name list with other domain masters
#remote subnet(192.168.1.0/24)
remote announce = 192.168.1.255/mygroup(bcast address/wkgrp)
or:
#for the other domains master browser:
#(192.168.1.2)
remote announce = 192.168.1.2/mygroup
#(unicast)

The other solution is to use wins, which is simple too
but takes too much client work for me.

Good Luck