On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:16:10AM -0400, ANDREW PERRIN wrote: | On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Rob Mahurin wrote: | | > > The biggest issue I had, once I had ipmasq installed, was the 'doze | > > boxes not cooperating with Samba. | > | > Oh, that's not good to hear. Maybe I won't need to set that up. | | Odd - I've had no problems whatsoever. I share several directories, a zip | drive, a cd-rom drive, and a printer using samba to my win98 box.
What I tried first was to get the Win98 and Win95 boxen to share with each other. That was where the real trouble was. Then, after I had my Debian gateway on the network, they started to work. Maybe they wanted a gateway? Doesn't make sense because they work now even without the gateway up and running. (The other real trouble was having a printer on the '98 box and using it from the '95 box. Win98 is, *gasp*, broken. It works fine the other way around.) The only real problem I have had with sharing from Debian -> Win98 is Win98 truncates all share names at ~13 characters, then it complains that it can't find the shorter name on the server. =p. I haven't tried to read the windows share from debian too much, but I didn't get the entry in /etc/fstab right -- I had to be root to mount/unmount. If I used smbmount directly I could use it as user. The automount stuff from samba works great too (samba will mount the cd when the share is accessed and unmounts it after a period of inactivity). Also, I haven't tried "user" level of authentication -- it is on "share" right now. | > > On the Debian systems I | > > use /etc/hosts to set names for the machines. | > | > 10:07 pts/0 $ grep study /etc/hosts | > 10.0.0.1 peon.study peon | > 10.0.0.2 bravo.study bravo | > 10.0.0.3 gow.study gow | | You can do this on the windows machine too; it goes in c:\windows\hosts. | Same format. That's nice. -D
