Problem networking with samba to the pc

[KennyR]

Amiga Samba requires three things for you to "see" the Amiga on a Windows SMB network:

1) You must be running nmbd, either as a daemon, or as inetd.

2) You must have name entries in your TCP/IP stack hosts database that correspond to the names on your PC network. The IPs have to be static.

You must be able to do "Ping " or "MiamiPing " or name resolving in Samba isn't going to work.

3) (edit) You need an LMHOSTS file in Samba:lib/. It's a text file with an IP address and a host name on each line, for each of your machines. i.e.

192.168.0.1 PC1
192.168.0.2 PC2
192.168.0.3 AMIGA
192.168.0.4 LINUXBOX

Once you've done all three, you should be able to see the Amiga in My Network Places.

[KennyR]

Yeah sorry, thats lib, not libs.

Too run nmbd do

Run >NIL: nmbd -D

..when Genesis is online. You can put it in a script or something.

Or you can set it up as an inetd, the same way you did with smbd. You may already have done that if you've been following AmigaSamba's guide.

[KennyR]

I don't know AmiTCP, but if it can run a script when you go online, that's the one to use.

AmigaSamba is a website, www.amigasamba.org .

[KennyR]

Ok, then you may be using Samba 2.2.5. The nmbd in this version does not work properly. Downgrade to 2.0.7.