Ethernet cards connected,,, but nothing going through? Maybe Samba?

[Capt Turk]

Can get a ping between computers.  Network Center, and the Sharing Wizard can not see the connection. I have samba-server, and client installed.
Net applet shows the eth0 interface is active.

I did this

[turk@dragon ~]$ smbtree -d 1 -N
failed negprot: NT_STATUS_INVALID_NETWORK_RESPONSE
failed negprot: NT_STATUS_INVALID_NETWORK_RESPONSE
[turk@dragon ~]$

[muungwana]

you get an invalid response, that means one computer can send traffic to the other and the other can respond. The error says the response is not what is expected.

The problem is no longer network problem but samba configuration problem.

You may need to add the other computer name and its IP address in "/etc/hosts" file. This has solve samba problems for others.

that error msg is not very informative, can you repeat with with "-d 3", that will give more verbal output.

The title should be something close to " samba sharing not working". It should atleast mention "samba" and "sharing".

You may loose people who know the problem simply because they will assume it is not a samba sharing problem and may skip your thread.

[Capt Turk]

Here it is,

[root@dragon ~]# smbtree -d 3 -N
lp_load_ex: refreshing parameters
Initialising global parameters
rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)
params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file "/etc/samba/smb.conf"
Processing section "[global]"
resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name MSHOME<0x1d>
name_resolve_bcast: Attempting broadcast lookup for name MSHOME<0x1d>
resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name MSHOME<0x1b>
resolve_wins: Attempting wins lookup for name MSHOME<0x1b>
resolve_wins: WINS server resolution selected and no WINS servers listed.
name_resolve_bcast: Attempting broadcast lookup for name MSHOME<0x1b>
name_resolve_bcast: Attempting broadcast lookup for name
__MSBROWSE__<0x1>
[root@dragon ~]#

[muungwana]

samba shares is one of those things. Its easy to do when its easy and very annoying and irritating when its not easy.

Try to follow texstar's instructions here and see if you can get it going.

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,93375.0.html

[Archie]

I am by no measure a networking novice but I would like to ask and maybe put forward a suggestion.

Would fish://<user>:<password>@<ip-address> work for the OP?

Thanks.

[muungwana]

I am by no measure a networking novice but I would like to ask and maybe put forward a suggestion.

Would fish://<user>:<password>@<ip-address> work for the OP?

Thanks.

No fish connects to an ssh server, what he wants to to connect to a samba server. A protocol to use would be "smb://", not "fish://"