[ale] Samba issue

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Jim Seymour wrote:
> Need a little help with SAMBA. I have a home network with a Debian Etch 
> box as the server. I have two Windows clients connected to it. The 
> problem is that the windows machines can only see the server and not 
> anything else on the workgroup. Also I use Gnome and cannot see any of 
> the windows boxes that are connected to it. Same with KDE.
> 
> So far what I can tell is that iptables is not blocking anything.
> 
> Both the nmbd and smbd daemons are running.
> 
> All of the computers can access the Internet.
> 
> My current samba.conf was built using SWAT. Nothing else has managed to 
> get me any further.
> 
> I have not been able to find a reference to my problem anywhere on the 
> Internet.

Do you have workgroup set in your config?  Are the windows boxes set to 
that workgroup?


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Until later, Geoffrey

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