Re: samba configuration problem

[sksharma <sksharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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thanks for suggestions. i made all changes as you suggested, but problem remain
same.  the basic problem is that the machine name is not visible in network
neigbourhood even netbios name given in smb.conf. This time whole smb.conf file
designed by swat utility. Once again i am  sending my smb.conf with this mail.
sk sharma

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, manas garg wrote:
>I made the following changes and it worked...
>
>1. Change security to share.
>2. Change guest account to ftp (if you don't have pcguest as a special
>user (like ftp) on your machine).
>
>Other than the above,
>1. There is no parameter like 'service type'
>2. The service being copied should come before the service that uses copy.
>In your case [homes] should be the first service listed in smb.conf.
>3. Always run testparm after you edit smb.conf.
>4. You can make your smb.conf a little smaller by putting things like
>'mangle case' in global section instead of each & every service.
>
>and some more....
>
>Hope this time you are able to run samba.
>
>Regards
>
>Manas
>
>
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