[TriLUG] SAMBA question

[Roy Vestal]

Thanks Ryan. I have been bypassing it and I wasn't thinking of it that way.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Leathers" <ryan.leathers at globalknowledge.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] SAMBA question


> Roy,
>
> Just in case you have overlooked the obvious here...
> Be sure to log in on the Win98 machine.
>
> Remember that with Win98 you can click cancel instead of entering a
> password after booting.  If you do so you will still get DHCP or static
> addressing to allow you to ping, surf etc, but you will not have started
> Windows networking services.  The "unable to browse the network" message
> is often a tip-off to this simple problem.
>
> On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 08:42, Roy Vestal wrote:
> > Samba question: I have an RHL 8.0 box running samba. It's sharing one
> > folder. When I try to connect to it via Windows 98 using the ip address
> > (i.e. \\192.168.xxx.xxx), it's not found. Also if I try to browse the
> > network, I'm told my network is not seen. I do not have DNS server,
rather I
> > depend on my hosts files. I only have 4 machines on the network and am
not
> > planning to put in a DNS server.
> >
> > Any ideas to get this heterogeneous conglomeration to merge and become
> > homogeneous?
> >
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