On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 15:01 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > I'm trying to get Samba functioning on my home network. It worked fine > > on Ubuntu - and I've saved the configuration file. Obviously I'm doing > > something wrong here, but I don't see it. > > > > My smb.conf has the line WORKGROUP=SATTERWHITE > > > > When I try to browse the network on my Windows box, I get the error message > > "Satterwhite is not accessible > > The associated network name is no longer available." > > > > I can post / send anything else that you need to help me with the problem. > > While running the tests suggested by margaret, I ran > nmblookup -B photon __SAMBA__ > > and got back > querying __SAMBA__ on 192.168.1.20 > name_query failed to find name __SAMBA__ > > The web page indicates an inetd problem - which I could have addressed. > I see that Fedora is using xinetd, and I don't see any smb or nmb > settings in the xinetd.d directory (I grepped for both). While this > *MIGHT* be OK, I'm suspecting a problem here. Should there be entries > for smb and nmb? If so, what should they be (and in what files?) ---- generally samba is responsible for it's own startup/shutdown and wouldn't make sense to use xinetd for samba. make sure it's running... service smb status ps aux|grep smb ps aux|grep nmb but check the firewall & networking issues that I just wrote about Craig >
