[lug] Samba connectivity question

[Hugh Brown]

Can the win98 computers ping the linux server by ip?  What about by name?

Hugh

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Mark Sweitzer wrote:

>
> I'm using Samba 3.0.10 on Mandriva 10.1.
>
> Directories and a printer are being shared to a mixed Windows workgroup.
>
> The WinXP computers are accessing the Samba shares.
>
> The Win98 computers cannot see the Linux server at all. The server can be
> pinged, but all attempts to find it as a Windows share fail, either by
> server name (\\[Name]) or by IP address (\\[IP#]).
>
> I've experimented with setting the Samba server as a WINS server, and
> pointing the Win98 clients to the WINS server, but it still can't see any
> shares.
>
> Anyone got any clues on this?
>
> My "smb.conf" text dump follows.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>