Samba Problem - xindetd

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 18:42 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > -----
> > that's a web connection...
> Right. IE adds http: to a raw address
> 
> > 
> > http://ip_address
> > 
> > \\ip_address should provide a network connection - not an http
> > connection. Perhaps I misspoke with Internet Explorer. Try doing this in
> > 'My Computer' instead of Internet Explorer though it shouldn't mater.
> 
> That got somewhere. When I entered 192.168.1.20 into the My Computer
> address bar, it got a failure to connect. 192.168.1.100 (the laptop
> address) did show it's file system.
> 
> It looks like it's getting closer, but I can't for the life of me see
> what's wrong. The hosts parameters in smb.conf read
> 	hosts allow =127. 192.168.
> 
> Which is a direct paraphrase from the man smb.conf page.
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failure to connect? - i.e. it was a logon failure or did it never ask for your login/password?

Look at your log files too. /var/log/samba - there might be a file like log.192.168.1.100 with some extra information.

Also /var/log/samba/log.smbd & log.nmbd

Craig
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