Seeing Linux from Windows

[Mitch Anderson]

from the command line..

/etc/init.d/smb status

should return two processes smbd and nmbd.  BOTH need to be running for
linux to act like a windows box... but smbd only needs to be running to
connect directly i believe... 

if they both arn't running

/etc/init.d/smb restart

then do a status again.. and they both should be running again...
if not... check the log files in /var/log/samba, log.nmbd and log.smbd
are the two you want to pay the most attention to if nmbd/smbd are not
running after the restart.

Mitch


On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 14:22, Chuck Allison wrote:
> Hello Steve,
> 
> Tuesday, May 13, 2003, 1:58:36 PM, you wrote:
> 
> SR> Is your samba server running?  Have you edited your /etc/samba/smb.conf
> SR> and changed your workgroup name to match the workgroup of your XP box?
> SR> (that's not critical but it can help)
> 
> SR> Tell us what you have done and we'll see if you've missed a step or two
> SR> :)
> 
> The first I did was change smb.conf to reflect the Window workgroup
> name two weeks ago, and started Samba via SWAT. I never shut it down.
> But I just tried to go back into SWAT and it timed out!
-- 
Mitch Anderson <mitcha at xmission.com>