Taking a close look at the error dumps when windows diagnostics failed, I noticed it was looking at port 445 and ONLY port 445... So I commented out this line, allowing samba to use the ports it thinks appropriate:
...and the boss' computer was miraculously able to connect again.
For the moment, anyway. It's teased me before by working briefly then dying, and there was no reason for it to suddenly start refusing to use port 139 after using it for months. Let's hope this sticks.
Hi, I am very new to Unix, do know some RedHat linux. I am wanting to install samba on my unix machine. Not sure where to start, any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris Lewis (4 Replies)
Hi All, I've been trying to configure samba on Solaris 10 to allow me to have one share that is open and writable to all users and have the rest of my shares password protected by a generic account.
If I set my security to user, my secured shares work just fine and prompt accordingly, but when... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I am using win7 on my PC and installed VMware on it on which i am running linux
I am unable to ping my linux guest from my win machine,
but i can ping my windows host from linux guest :
Below is my system configuration
Linux
root@localhost ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link... (9 Replies)
Hi Guys,
Kindly advise what options/settings needed in smb.conf to support win7.
currently we are experiencing slow connection issues from our recently upgraded win7 from XP to our Samba server ver. 3.0.33-3.7.el5_3.1 (1 Reply)
I have an issue with my Samba share - I am unable to write to it, edit a file or rename a folder etc within Windows.
I am using Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 and this is my Samba config.
I can connect to the /sylius directory no problem (no password required), but I cannot save to it.
Is... (3 Replies)
Hello all,
Earlier I had a mac book and created a HFS+ file system on Seagate 1 TB external HDD, copied around 200 GB content. Now, I have a Windows 7 machine and wanted to copy the HDD contents to this new machine. Tried using MacDrive10 to mount HFS+ file system in Windows. Mouting is fine and... (1 Reply)
So, I finally got around to getting Dreamscene to work with my Win 7 (64bit) Laptop.
The only thing I find quite annoying, is that I have to "right click" a video file (.wmv/.mpg) and select "Set a Background" each time I want to change the video file.
Is there a way to 'directly forward' a... (1 Reply)