samba misbehaving again

[Gregory Nowak]

Thanks kerry,

I'm slightly confused though. I have a nic for the internet, and another nic for my intranet. Does changing the interface listening setup still apply?
Greg


On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 03:55:58PM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> 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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