Yo! Is there an MCSE in da house? W2K-SMB acting up!

plate

The setup should be fairly simple, and it does work partly. I can mount a shared /home from the Linux host daimyo on the W2K laptop ronin, and I can see the CUPS printer on daimyo (and get "connection refused", but that's probably a different story). However, I cannot access anything on ronin from daimyo, no file shares, no printers, and what it shows when I try to run a diagnose is plain weird, I swear. This Windoze machine remembers an IP address that was installed temporarily for use in somebody else's office network months ago :!:

(Real world IP address masked to protect innocent bystanders)

simcop2387 · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 3:02 am Post subject:

ok i dont know too much about this, but are you sure the two computer are on the same network, and the same subnet? i could be wrong but i think w2k might have issues if you arent on the same subnet

plate · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 3:16 am Post subject:

There's only one network here, and I'm running DHCP across the board. No stray subnets except that weird shadow from the past nobody has used in months. I did mention W2K --> Linux works, didn't I? I even have one of dem DOS drive letters assigned to my shared ~/ on the Linux host, and can use it as a completely normal network drive from W2K, no problems whatsoever. User mapping works, Samba password is obviously accepted, network drive is mounted on booting the W2K, no problems whatsoever there. It's just printing to CUPS from the Windows laptop that doesn't work, and accessing shared services on W2K from Linux that goes belly up all the time. I've been poking around conf files directly, but the GUI tools aren't any smarter than I am: Komba2 doesn't even see the machine...

klieber · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 5:47 pm Post subject:

Few things I would do:

Check the event viewer on Win2K to see if it's recording any related events. That will tell you if the packets are even reaching the Win2K box at all.
Check your /etc/host file to see if there's an entry for ronin that points to the wrong IP address (999.999....) I doubt there is, but what the hey
grep your various samba conf files for the 999 IP address. If that fails, grep *all* files for that 999 IP address. (probably want to do this before you go to bed...) For whatever reason, that IP is stored somewhere and that's probably what's causing your problem.
Also, make sure you don't have that bum IP defined anywhere as a secondary IP address on the win2k box. Just a stab in the dark.

--kurt
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plate · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 9:46 am Post subject:

Thanks a lot!

The event viewer on ronin has never heard about daimyo, and in particular doesn't know diddley about any samba connection attempts.
Course not. Thanks for asking, though.
Nothing in /etc/samba either. You want me to do what?
Argh. Yes. Good point. But no, it's nowhere to be found, at least nowhere I'd know to look. The only occurrence of that IP number on ronin is in an old mail message in Outrage Depress.

This really hasn't been my week... Samba stuck halfway through, Gentoo on my Macintosh completely falling apart - I ought to go back to cultivating roses or something...

klieber · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 12:38 pm Post subject:

plate · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 2:25 pm Post subject:

OMG:

klieber · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 2:31 pm Post subject:

klieber · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 2:34 pm Post subject:

plate · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 2:54 pm Post subject:

Great. Very efficiently shot myself in the foot while trying to comply with the standards. I did put everything in a domain I own, except that the (remote) DNS is pointing to my webserver out in the wild, and apparently it does that for all subdomains, not only www... And that stray IP address is not the number I was using when I was visiting that hosting company, it's my webserver... What's the emoticon for pulling out your own hair again?

Thanks, klieber! You've been a tremendous help :!:

klieber · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 3:02 pm Post subject:

plate · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 3:10 pm Post subject:

rac is my witness, that's what I look like as long as I'm having things more or less under control. At the stage of despair I currently am, my avatar should probably resemble an exploding porcupine. :twisted: