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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080419/cc52e2de/attachment-0005.sig>