[SWLUG] re: disheartened

[Peter Joseph]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 02:19:13AM +0000, Rhys Sage wrote:
> 
> I've managed to get XP Pro talking to Zeus again now.
> It still won't talk properly though. All it would do
> after I set Zeus as the Windows and Workgroup
> Contrller was to send ping responses to messages from
> the XP box sent as IP and Name. 

You need to break it down into a logical order to see where the fault
lies, currently it could be anywhere from your ip subnetting to some
samba misconfiguration. 

I take it you are using all static ip configs? Make sure that your XP
boxs static ip are correctly set, dont forget to double check the subnet
mask also. 

Once you have established pinging between the two boxes test with ssh.
As far as I can gather this already works for you. Since you can ping
your server by its hostname too it seems your dns setup is correct. 

> It was somewhat frustrating to find myself locked out
> by my own server. In the end, I borrowed the monitor
> and keyboard from another PC and put them on the
> server. Then I set Zeus not to be the windows and
> workgroup controller and Zeus (SME) commenced talking
> to Apollo (XP Pro) again.

What do you mean? When Samba is the workgroup master you can't ping your
server anymore?? More details needed here. 

> However, I'm back to the same problem, namely I can
> ping and putty Zeus but can't map any networked
> drives. I can't see Zeus in My Network Places anywhere
> - not even under the workgroup entry.

Okay, so you have ip connectivity. The problem lies with Samba or
Windows XP. Have you ensured that your XP box is in the same 'workgroup'
as your server. 
Oh...something just occured to me, have you set a
limiting static IP range that samba will listen to? say ips 4,5,6,7
only? If so you need to allow it to listen to an entire subnet from 1 to
255 as I recall that windows share browsing makes use of broadcasts to
do its thing...Just let samba listen to your entire subnet. It's
possible to tell it to listen only to a certain interface, so your
internal lan iface and not your external internet,broadband (whatever
interface).

Thats all I can think of at the moment!

Peter

-- 
Peter Joseph                               Debian GNU/Linux Maintainer 
kneecaps at shockpulse.co.uk                          kneecaps at debian.org
http://www.shockpulse.co.uk/                    http://www.debian.org/  
   "If there were no god, we would have to invent him." - Voltaire


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