On (08/06/03 22:43), Clive Menzies wrote: > I've been round in several circles in the last 24 hours without success. > Looking through the docs and googling provided numerous ideas as to the > source of the problem but various fixes failed to sort this particular > problem: > > I've recently set-up a network with 3 servers running NFS and Samba. By > synchronising the users of these and 3 clients (running Debian, MacOSX > and Windows between them) all could access files on the servers > according to permissions and ownership. > > NIS would be a more elegant solution and so I have designated > one server as the NIS server and set it up accordingly. AFAICT this > works fine on the Linux side - tested it by removing one user from one > of the other servers and relied on NIS to authenticate access. So far > so good - I didn't even have to configure the NIS client; it just seemed > to work out of the box ;-) > > The problem arises when booting the same client into windows98 - it > doesn't seem to find the NIS server to validate the user. Relevant parts > of the smb.conf are as follows: > > # set local master to no if you don't want Samba to become a master > # browser on your network. Otherwise the normal election rules apply > local master = yes > > # Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section: > # WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable it's WINS > # Server > wins support = yes > > I've tried various settings on the windows client including the NT > network setting. I have a limited understanding of networking in > general and Windows in particular.
Some further info: Hydra:/# /usr/bin/nmblookup -B Hydra_SAMBA_ YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound Que? TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
