On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Claude Jones <cjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon April 14 2008, Craig White wrote: > > > > You can ping each of these systems from the Fedora box? > > > > > > just tried this and no, the machines that don't display their IP or show > > > their shares aren't responding to pings > > > > ---- > > clue here Claude...this isn't a samba issue > > well, the problem is, the importation of the smb.conf file from the PCLinuxOS > box seems to have gotten things working -- at least, it was after that that > things worked; I did a number of things last evening, and I've noticed that > sometimes, changes you make to Samba networking don't 'take' instantly, even > when you restart smb and nmb services; I did also swap out the cable last > night, but immediately after doing that, there was no change > > the only remaining problem is that mounting is messed up - I can't mount my > shares from the Fedora box, even though they mount readily from the PCLinuxOS > machine, but at least now, all machines that are up on the lan are showing up > in the list, and all their shares are visible > > so, how does this all compute with the inability to ping? - I just don't know! > I said I wanted to really figure out what was causing these problems, > yesterday, but, I don't feel any closer to that understanding than I did > before I started all this..... > > I need to go through those two smb.conf configuration files and see what's > different, for one thing -- that should tell me something. > > > -- > Claude Jones > Brunswick, MD, USA > Is this fedora box a dual boot setup?was it ever? have you updated the bios? otherwise tested the hardware? Are you sure the firewall is working properly? have you port scanned the box to verify what the firewall reports? The PCOSLinux experiment , you ran that live cd on the fedora box with the problems right?
