Thanks for the info, I'll check it all out... NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Daniel Brosemer wrote: > 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
