subarus
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Posted: Jan. 09 2005,07:31 |
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Got It !! Samba is fully working (as a file server, NOT file transfer) from DSL to DSL. It has been working from Windows tp DSL out-of-the-box, will check if it works from DSL to Windows later. I am writting this down so I can retrace my steps to find out what actually went on.
I dont know exactly what I did.. but these are chronological events as far as I could remember. Dont know which of these steps or combo of steps did it though:
1) Thought that since both client and server has the same name (box) since i run livecd, I changed the client name to 'T41'
user@T41:~# smbtree -U% ---> got nothing from server
2) on server: start to laboriously uncommenting each damn line like an idiot
server:/opt/samba/smb.conf workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = Samba Server
host allow = <something>
smbtree at client see NOTHING
3) edit more lines in smb.conf
security=share
client sees Nothing
4) socket options = TCP+NODELAY
local master = no
os level =20
domain master = yes
client sees nothing
5) preferred master = yes
wins support = yes
nothing
all these while smbclient -L localhost sees all shares
smbclient -L server-ip sees all shares
but linneighborhood and smbtree cant see it
6) At this point I spend like 2.5 days and was pretty pissed. Started to readup Knoppix docs , readup slackware docs, redhat docs; consider changing distro again reluctantly. realised that other distros kept refering to 'samba start, smb start' but about 9 pages down google search I saw smbd -D; nmbd -D command
7) on server side : kill -9 `pidof smbd`
smbd -D; nmbd -D
LO and BEHOLD; smbtree on client finally sees the server
refresh on linneighborhood sees nothing; but add command finally sees the server, mount it and did some sanity check, everything automagically works !!!
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