On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I need to know if I need to rename my network 'WORKGROUP' to be able to > share drives and printers with windows. > I've currently named my network 'natepuri.com.' It's not a registered > name, yet. I'll register it when I get the money.
I don't believe this is valid. This is not an internet domain it wants, but rather, a lanman domain, I don't think it can contain '.'s > Does samba require WORKGROUP? Or is that just a variable for whatever I > want to call my network. Whatever you want, mine is called ASGARD. > Presently all tcp/ip connections over my LAN are very function. IP MASQ > is functional as well. However, I have the client section in the network > window in the control panel set to 'Log on the Windows NT domain.' > Previously I had the 'Windows NT domain:' set to 'natepuri.com,' that > didn't work so I set it to 'WORKGROUP' and that didn't work. You must change this in both SAMBA and in Win95, you also need to have in your smb.conf the lines: domain master = yes domain logons = yes > I had 'Access Control' set to 'User-level access control' and first had > the list of users set to 'natepuri.com' then to 'WORKGROUP.' Neither > worked. I can't yet get this part to work either. Maybe eventually, does anyone on the list have this working? > I'm using 'client for microsoft networks.' Samba is running in daemon > mode. > When I boot windows, it says 'cannot log on to Windows NT domain, some > network services will be unavailable.' (or something like that). This is probably due to it not thinking your SAMBA server is a domain master for the domain you have told it to log in to. Adding the two lines above should fix that. You will also need to give yourself a SAMBA password: man smbpasswd > What am I doing wrong? I've read the SMB HOWTO among others. The issues > above still confuse me... Thanks... try: http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~djbrosem/sambahowto/Samba-Beginners-HOWTO.html It's a work in progress, so not ready for prime-time yet, but I've got some pretty positive feedback on it. The package information for debian needs to be updated, so don't treat it as gospel, just a word of caution. The smb.conf file should do what you need, though, and AFAIK, it's the only info on SAMBA that explains win95 configuration. HTH -Dano
