In article <5m55b.116742$Ij4.114060@news2.central.cox.net>,
miron@yahoo.com says...
> Ok. I have spent 4 days reading darn near everything I can find (short of
> every book in Barnes and Noble, etc).
>
> I have Samba 2.2.8a-1 presently (had 2.2.5 up before today...).
> Red Hat Linux 8.
>
> Single Windows 2000 SP4 (SP4 by updating, not fresh install). Using
> Workgroup designation.
>
> The Samba Server is announcing itself and I can see it via Windows Explorer.
> HOWEVER, when I click on the Samba Server I get the message \\Orion_srvr is
> not accessible. The Network Path was not found.
>
> I am running two NIC's in both the Linux box and the Win2K box. They are
> purposely on different address ranges for security purposes.
> The Samba Server allows connections on the 192.168.0.5 range. The
> 67.42.41.xxx is static and I do not want access to samba outside this
> office.... I have stripped down all of the protocols and have even
> temporarily disabled one of the NIC's in the Win2K box. Yet the same error
> message comes up.
>
> My smb.log file is showing on the service starting up. There seems to be no
> indication of failure to connect to the service in the log files.
>
> Any information that anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated!
> - Miron
>
> smb.conf - begin
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> # Global parameters
> [global]
> workgroup = ORION_CF
> netbios name = ORION_SRVR
> server string = Samba Server
> interfaces = eth1
> security = SHARE
> encrypt passwords = Yes
> map to guest = Bad User
> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
> max log size = 50
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> os level = 33
> remote browse sync = 192.168.0.255
> guest account = root
>
> [public]
> comment = Public Stuff
> path = /home/samba
> username = administrator
> read only = No
> guest ok = Yes
>
> [homes]
> valid users = %S
> read only = No
> browseable = No
>
> -=-=- [ END ] -=-=-
>
>
>
Disable the Redhat firewall. This a FAQ in the archives
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