On Monday April 14 2008 4:04:39 pm Craig White wrote: > I'm sure Fedora can and will do that but you have to figure > out why it's not doing that. > Yes, but it doesn't do it out of the box - never has since FC1 which is where I started > WINS requires broadcasts... > > so if all your systems are on 192.168.2.0 network and they all > have a 255.255.255.0 subnet mask, and they are not blocking > broadcast or NETBIOS ports (137, 138, 139 & 445) by virtue of > a firewall it all should work as planned. > All the above conditions are met. The PCLinuxOS disk is on a computer that's getting its address from the same router as all the other machines. It's coming up on livecd practically working - I only had to tell it what NIC to use to find the network connection. > The broadcast address for 192.168.2.0 / subnet mask > 255.255.255.0 is 192.168.2.255 > Yes, I do know this > If your Fedora box is on a different network, a different > subnet mask or the firewall blocks one of those ports, all > bets are off. The Fedora box is not on a different network, that's the whole point of my PCLinuxOS experiment -- subnet masks are also the same, and though the firewall on the Fedora box is correctly configured, I also turned it off completely to make sure it wasn't the cuprit. I also found selinux messages related to smb and nmb traffic being blocked, and tried running the suggested remedy-commands AND, subsequently, putting selinux in permissive mode, but to no avail. Fedora's Samba implementation is no two-stepper... But, I want to understand why -- if there's a reason it has to be this way, so be it, but I'm on a mission to figure out what causes the problem, in great detail, so I can just fix it without having to resort to the triad (google, man, list) in the future... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
