On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 09:48 -0500, James Pifer wrote: > I use Ghost for imaging some Windows test machines. I store the images > on one of my Fedora machines and access them using NetBoot disk > (www.netbootdisk.com) connecting to a samba share. I've done this for a > long time, not a new process. > > Ever since I updated the machine to FC7 I can't connect to it from my > NetBoot Disk anymore. Actually, it can't connect to either of the > machines I updated to FC7. The old FC5 machine I have still works fine. > Since I've never been able to figure it out, my work around has been > connecting to the FC5 machine, which has the images mounted over NFS, > and accessing that way. The FC5 machine is pretty slow. I'd like to get > it working directly again. > > If I try to use net use or net view to the FC7 machines I get the old > "Error 53: The computer name specified in the network path cannot be > located." > > **Nothing has changed with how I connect since it's in a script (batch > file). > > **Windows PCs still seem to be able to connect fine. > > **I've compared the share settings between the FC5 and FC7 machines and > I can't find any differences except server name, share name, etc. > > **FC5 samba version is 3.02315. FC7 is 3.02707 > > **both machines have iptables wide open. > > **I get no samba log on the FC7 machine for the IP address when I try to > connect. Logically that would lead you to think it's a problem with > NetBoot disk, but it's the same CD I've ALWAYS used. > > I think it has something to do with Samba not broadcasting itself, but > again, I've compared all the settings to the FC5 machine and I can't > find a difference. > > Anyone have any ideas? ---- sounds like on the F7 system, you need settings in global section of smb.conf something like... wins support = no wins server = ip_address_of_wins_server Craig
