Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 10:36:25 -0400 From: Adam Pendleton <APendleton@vgsinc.com> To: 'Dan O'Connor' <dan@mostgraveconcern.com>, Joe Park <joepark@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: SAMBA and browing workgroup Message-ID: <E02EEE2BB9E8D311A54B0000D18957B109E611@PROXY>
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From my experience the best way to determing errors with SAMBA is to check the logs. Depending on your installation these could be in /var/log/samba, or in $INSTALL_DIR/var/. Either way, you are looking for smb.log and nmb.log. Look at these logs and it should become fairly obvious what your problem is. Also, there are machine-specific logs created for each computer that tries to connect. Look at those logs too (if they exist). Adam Pendleton Security Engineer VGS, Inc. Faifax, VA > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan O'Connor [mailto:dan@mostgraveconcern.com] > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 10:02 AM > To: Joe Park > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: SAMBA and browing workgroup > > > >Thank you Dan for your reply. I do have correct interface setting as > follow, > > > >[global] > > interfaces = 192.168.1.0/24 > > > >I can mount file server from Window box and I can see my > server with right > >click > >on Network Neighborhood and "Find Computer". After finding > my server, > double > >click on the name of server opens explorer. When I see the > path, it's > under > >Network Neighborhood-->The name of my workgroup-->Samba > server. When I > tried > >go up to my workgroup, it gives me error saying it can't > find it. Very > >strange. > > > >Any idea? > > > One other thing to check, that I've been bitten with when > reinstalling, is > your 'Guest' account. > > I couldn't browse because I hadn't yet set up the guest > account that I had > listed in smb.conf. Looking through O'Reilly's 'Using Samba,' > I found this > buried in the middle of the paragraph at the bottom of page 276: "An > erroneous guest user account can prevent the shares from being seen." > > Make sure your 'guest account = pcguest' line in smb.conf matches a > real-life user account... > > --Dan > > -- > Dan O'Connor > On Matters of Most Grave Concern > http://www.mostgraveconcern.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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