Hello and a happy New Year to all!

I read previous threads about networking with Samba and now I'm trying it too.

The Setup:
- Wireless router
- PC with Win98
- Peg 1
- A1200 with 10mbit PCMCIA card


Accomplishment this far:
- PC recognises my Peg in Network environment
- Samba is installed on Peg and A1200


Problems:
- I can't connect to the pc with SMBFS from my Peg1.
The error-message is: "Unknown host 'webcomp' (1, Unknown host)'"
But I can see this host with "smbclient -L webcomp"
(webcomp is the hostname of my PC)

- I can't access the A1200 from either the PC or Peg1.
The error-message is: "Invalid packet length! (90724 bytes)"
Can this be something with the 10mbit of the A1200 and the 100mbit of the Peg and PC?

I hope I was clear enough

What am I missing here?

Thanks,

Spidey

There is a file called "lmhosts" in samba that must be configured with your pc's name and IP address
example

192.168.0.1 peecee.mygroup

Hi nels664868,

Yes

I just saw this at the Dutch Amiga.NL.
It isn't mentioned in the install description of Samba (or have I misread something?).
Anyway, I configured the hosts in the Genesis Prefs and now I can "mount" the other shares

I still had the error with the A1200 (Invalid packet length).
I changed the portnumber of the service swat and now all computers are functioning perfectly.
I still don't know if this was causing that error though.

Thanks,

Spidey

Hello Spidey,

Maybe this helps..

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amigasamba/message/1125

Hi logain,

Thank you very much for this link!

I've got everything running fine now, but I still get this error of invalid packet length after I've used smbfs to mount a share.

The problem is that the smbd-server isn't up and running. When I type "smbd" in a CLI-window I get as result:

"smbd: Version 2.0.7 : Must have effective user id of zero to run."

Perhaps something to do with the user "pcguest" with UID=10 I made?

Spidey

Have you included the 3 strings in inetd.conf as described in the docs?
Did you try to start Genesis as User: root?

If everything runs well on your Pegasos, compare your ENV-Variables (USER, LOGNAME, etc), smb.conf and the AMITCP:db/ entries. You can easily check those ENV-variables in MorphOS with command 'env'.

Hi logain,

Have you included the 3 strings in inetd.conf as described in the docs?
Yes I have

Did you try to start Genesis as User: root?
I guess I did (Can you start it with different users?)

If everything runs well on your Pegasos, compare your ENV-Variables (USER, LOGNAME, etc), smb.conf and the AMITCP:db/ entries. You can easily check those ENV-variables in MorphOS with command 'env'.
I don't know of a command "env" my friend but I checked the LOGNAME and USER in ENV: and they have as variable "root" in them.

Ok, I just did the following as experiment:

- I mounted the share on my pc with smbfs WITHOUT the user-part:
-> smbfs volume= pc workgroup=spidey service=//webcomp/share
- Checked if nmbd and snmbd were running with command Status and they did.

Next I mounted the share again, but now with the user-part:
-> smbfs volume=pc workgroup=spidey user=pcguest service=//webcomp/share
- Checked again, and guess what: the service smbd has stopped.

Strange enough I can still start it again, while yesterday it produced errors?? (very confused Spidey now )

A question: If I mount a share with my Peg, the other computers can't access that share until I release it with the Peg. Is there an option with which I still can access it with other computers while mounted on the Peg?

Spidey