Workgroup/Samba weirdness

[T. Tam]

Jen-san,

At my setup at home, I have a router that runs network address
translation.  That way, all my machines are behind a firewall of sorts,
and they all have internal network IPs (192.168.0.x).  They can be had for
fairly cheap, $60.00 off pricewatch, and at $5.00 per additional IP per
month from AT&T, it'll pay for itself pretty quick.  Besides, the router
can be left on and it'll keep renewing the DHCP lease - my router has been
running for MONTHS on the same IP at home.

-=- Terence

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Jen Barrick wrote:

> My roommate and I figured it out - the windows machine only sees the linux
> machine if it's in the same subnet (duh).  And because ATT, the bastards,
> don't give us static ips, it's a crap shoot every time I turn on the
> Windows box to see if it gets an ip in the same subnet as the Linux one -
> if it is, it sees the other box.  If not, no happiness.
>
> Stupid ATT.
>
> -Jen
>
> 25 Jun 2002 ni, uchuukuukan de C. Olmsted kara, kono meseji tsuita:
>
> > What happens if you type "\\linuxserver" in the Run... dialog box?  Does
> > it show up then?  What about if you search for the linux box using the
> > "find" program in win2k?  Is your linux box trying to become the master
> > browser?  That might possibly be one reason for the intermittent
> > functionality...
> >
> > Cliff
> >
> > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Jen Barrick wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Several months ago, I set up samba so that my Win2K box could access files
> > > on my Linux (RH 7.1) box.  Worked like a dream, no issues at all.  A few
> > > months later, the Win2K box suddenly stopped seeing the Linux box in its
> > > workgroup.  I restarted smb, all that jazz - no luck.  After a few weeks
> > > of Win2K blindness, I apparently fixed -something- because it started
> > > seeing the Linux box again (I have no idea what I did... I think I futzed
> > > with workgroups and rebooted a bunch of times on both boxes... maybe).
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, it's started doing it again, completely randomly.  I have
> > > little hope that it's actually a Linux problem (I haven't upgraded, and
> > > haven't changed the samba configuration), but I was wondering if anyone
> > > had any idea what's going on and how to fix it?  It makes me very sad.
> > >
> > > I can supply more information upon request.
> > >
> > > -Jen
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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