On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:55:18AM +1000, Ed Durrant wrote:
> Chris Hellwig wrote:
> > John Poltorak schrieb:
> >> I know this is slightly off topic but hopefully someone here can help...
> >>
> >> I'm hoping to migrate from Warp Server to Samba and am trying to set
> >> up a samba server, but can't get a Windows system connect. Does
> >> anyone know what I should be looking at to see why it isn't connecting?
> >>
> >> Both system are on an internal (192.168) network and can ping each
> >> other, but I don't know how to tell if I have set up the Windows
> >> system properly.
> >> It doesn't connect so there is obviously a misconfiguration.
> >>
> >>
> > First of all it is necessary to show your smb.conf.... This is a good
> > starting point to discuss.
> >
> > Regards
> > Chris
> >
> Also does the Windows box connect to warp server OK, only not to Samba ?
I only have TCP/IP running on the Windows box - never tried to connect it
to Warp Server, but WS is not running on the Samba box currently.
> Have you stopped warp server before starting SAMBA Server - you don't
> have both running at the same time do you ?
No.
> If the windows box is a Vista box - good luck - there are a lot of new
> problems with that.
Windows ME.
> If trying to use NetBeui on windows XP, you do know you have to
> specially install the protocol on XP from the install CD.
>
> Also worth trying is (diosconnect you local network from the internet
> while doing this) - disable any software firewall on the windows box and
> see if you can connect then. If you can you need to reconfigure your
> software firewall to allow this traffic through.
>
> Cheers/2
>
> Ed.
--
John
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