On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 12:33 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > On Tue April 15 2008, Craig White wrote: > > nothing monumental sticks out but I would probably drop the SO_RECV and > > SO_SND socket options unless you have specific knowledge of them being > > of a benefit... > > > > http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/speed.html#id268 > >7166 > > > > Craig > > I've fixed the ping problem. It turned out that studiopc which is running the > Comodo firewall was treating the LAN as an untrusted zone. I changed that and > ping is now working to that machine. Nothing else has changed as a result, > but, my mount problem is probably unrelated. There are still those many > questions. What changed between the configuration from the PCLinuxOS box and > the one from Fedora that resulted in partially solving the problem? I still > have a problem seeing anything on my Fedora box from the Windows machines, > which I haven't mentioned before, since there was so much other stuff going > on. This whole exercise was brought on by my wish to share my HP laser > printer on my Fedora box with the Windows machines on the network. I've > gotten it to work before, though not for a good long while now. None of my > Windows boxes see the Fedora box right now, and therefore don't see the > printer... > > Sidenote: I just brought up my F9 beta on the same box I had been running the > PCLinuxOS cd on, and tried browsing the LAN with smbk4 - it finds nothing. > Checked to see if the smb service was running and it was unrecognized. I'll > pursue this later. I did open the new services window to see if I could turn > on smb there before I checked from the command line, and it seemed to be > informational only - no services that weren't running were shown, and there > seemed to be no setting that would show available services and no way to turn > on or off anything that was displayed... > > And, thanks for your help - I will take a look at that socket options stuff - > those were just the default options that were set in the PCLinuxOS package... ---- the easy way to figure out if it's a Windows Name Resolution (WINS) problem is to use IP addresses instead. So if you're on your studiopc system...open an explorer window and type the following in the address bar... \\IP_ADDRESS_OF_FEDORA_BOX\SHARE and it should either mount, require a logon, or reject you. If using the name instead of the IP address behaves differently, you have to fix the WINS issue Craig
