Re: samba configuration problem

[Chetan Kumar <chetansk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, sksharma wrote:

> 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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