samba misbehaving again

[Kerry Hoath]

If your machine is multi-homed i.e. has more than one interface,
tell samba which interfaces to listen on in the [global] section
of the configuration file like this:
interfaces=192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0
Note that you specify the ip address of the interface and the netmask not the network address
and netmask. If a ppp or other link goes up or down whilst
samba is running it can have trouble figuring out what interfaces it should be listening on.
Also, you should set
wins support=yes
and point all other samba machines and windows machines at the 1 (one) wins
server. This eliminates problems with broadcast trafic not
crossing subnet boundaries and greatly enhances name resolution.

Regards, Kerry.
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 10:13:32PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've got samba troubles again. I swear that I didn't modify anything on this machine. If I did, I can't remember doing it, and I'm not sure what's going on. I checked inetd.conf, the samba logs, hosts.deny, hosts.allow, and of course smb.conf, but everything is as it should be. When I try to connect to my main samba machine with windblows, th main samba machine is not in the list of machines. When I use smbmount from another linux box, I get something like:
> 
> x protocal negotiation failed. smb connection failed.
> 
> In this case, x is 116, 118, 120, 122, or 124. The strange thing is that there is nothing in the samba logs. However, when I do:
> 
> smbmount //localhost/storage /mnt
> 
> on the main samba machine, I get asked for the password, and the directory is mounted. Any ideas on what the problem is? Thanks in advance.
> Greg
> 
> 
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