[lug] Samba problem

[Hugh Brown]

fyi samba-server is not installed by default on a workstation machine,
just samba and samba-common (which have the client)

Hugh


On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 12:55, Tkil wrote:
> >>>>> "Elyse" == Elyse Grasso <emgrasso at data-raptors.com> writes:
> 
> Elyse> I have samba installed on 2 linux machines. The machines can
> Elyse> ping each other, and smbclient works locally on each of
> Elyse> them. smbclient from each of them can also access a third
> Elyse> machine, an NT box, and they can transfer files back and forth
> Elyse> to it.
> 
> Elyse> When I attempt to use smbclient between them in either
> Elyse> direction the connection times out.
> 
> Dumb question: do you actually have the samba *server* running on
> these two boxes?  smbclient is just that -- a client.  you need to
> have the samba servers (smbd, and ... nmbd?) running on the linux
> boxes before you can connect to the linux box from the NT box for
> file/print sharing (or from the other linux box, with smbclient there)
> 
> Remember that "installed" doesn't necessarily imply "configured and
> running properly".  In fact, this is a change that many distributions
> made relatively recently -- RedHat used to run any installed services
> at next reboot, but recent releases require the administrator to start
> the services manually.
> 
> If you already have it running, then my apologies for stating the
> obvious.  You can start looking at your logs to see if it's having
> problems in the server, or check your firewall rules as Jafo
> mentioned.
> 
> t.
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