On Saturday 19 April 2008 14:40:36 Craig White wrote:
On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 13:55 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
My server is CentOS with samba 3.0.25b. One client box runs Mandriva 2007.1 with samba 3.0.24. I can see the client box from the server, but the client box can't see the server. It can see the laptop on the same lan, though.
Any suggestions as to what I could check? I know Craig said there had been some significant changes in recent versions. Are any of those changes likely to have an impact on this?
are they on the same subnet?
it almost sounds like firewall rules are in the way.
Always check first from localhost and then from another machine...
from localhost...
smbclient -L localhost smbclient -L NETBIOSNAME # which is the hostname unless you set something # different in smb.conf
then from another computer...
smbclient -L IP_ADDRESS_OF_SYSTEM smbclient -L NETBIOSNAME
if localhost & IP_ADDRESS_OF_SYSTEM work but NETBIOSNAME doesn't work, you've got a problem with name resolution.
All four requested the user password, then returned a summary of the shares. The LAN name is correct. The client in question, though, is names as master, which it shouldn't be.
Anne