Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 08:22:53 -0500 From: Joshua Fielden <shaggy@houseofduck.ml.org> To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> Cc: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Samba config Message-ID: <345495AD.D209A6@houseofduck.ml.org> References: <199710260200.CAA09227@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Brian Somers wrote: > > > > > I have a question for those of you using samba and Win95, does your FreeBSD > > box running samba show up in your network nieghborhood? Currently I can map > > drive the shared folders to my win95 machine, but I'm wondering if it( BSD > > box) should be showing up in the network neighborhood??...If it should what > > does your smb.conf look like? .... > > This is nmbd's job. Despite any docs that say otherwise, the only > way to get nmbd to publish itself is to run it as a daemon - *not* > from inet. > > I have /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nmbd.sh on my dev box: > echo -n ' nmbd'; /usr/local/sbin/nmbd -D -C Development > > If you have more than one interface, you may also need an > "Interfaces = " line in smb.conf, say > > Interfaces = 10.0.0.1/24 Actually, I have mine running from inetd with no problems. Of course, it's almost the only thing on this machine that runs exactly as advertised, but I'll take what I can get. :-) > > Thanks! > > > > Btw I have an NT domain controller, as the master browser..... > > Well, until it loses a browser election. I have a network with one NT server and a bunch of 95 machines, and one SAMBA server. The NT machine will lose elections even if the SAMBA machine is off. :-) > This shouldn't make a difference - but be warned, if you bring that > machine down, you screw up all the other M$ machines... it makes me > sick :-( > > My NT boxes CPU melted a little while ago and I had to put an alias > on one of the FreeBSD boxes interfaces for the dead machine, > otherwise I was suffering regular ~100second pauses on all the M$ > machines. > > I couldn't figure out any magic incantation to tell the remaining > boxes THE NT SERVER IS DEAD ! (no matter how load I shouted). make sure _nothing_ is set to log into the NT domain you had created (if you did) and _power down_ everything, then reboot, one-by-one. That's the only way I could get rid of a workgroup I removed here. :-( > -- > Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org> > <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... -- Joshua Fielden, Systems Administrator, GeoCities. jfielden@geocities.com #include <std_disclaimers.h> "Nothing is true until it makes you smile, nothing is understood until it makes you cry" -Robert Anton Wilson
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?345495AD.D209A6>