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So the dragon you slew (knocked out) was the WINS dragon. I thought
that perhaps you had meant Linux. To my previous post about protocol
knowledge facilitating server configuration, I don't know much about WINS.
I guess I have some stuff about it in a box somewhere. But it's not
an RFC. If I had to learn more, where would I start? (In fact,
I'm in the same boat with PPTP. I'd like to understand my laptop's
vulnerability when connected - sans firewall - to my DSL modem. Does
it change when I use PPTP? Does PPTP prevent my computer from reacting
to stuff that comes outside the tunnel? Where would I look for details?)
<p>True, true, I have more Linux experience than NT admin experience, so
certainly I know where to find Linux info better. But the several
times I've looked for NT info have been much more frustrating than looking
for Linux info. Maybe I need to subscribe to MSDN or whatever NT
gurus use to find their info. (Are there any NT gurus? I've
yet to meet one.)
<p>Warren Young provided some <a href="http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/kirch/feedback/warren_young.More_NT_vs_Unix_observations.html">feedback</a>
to the Kirch article I mentioned. Paragraph 2 has some comments about
configuration dialogs vs. text files.
<p>Dave
<p>"David L. Willson" wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I do not mind a bit, my friend!
<p>First, my resource for learning Samba is the "Teach Yourself Samba in
24
<br>Hours" book that has so frequently graced the door-prize table at our
<br>meetings. Though the title could not be less appropriate, I value
this book
<br>highly as my own personal Samba authority. It knows the answer
to every
<br>Samba question, and explains concepts clearly.
<p>Second, my smb.conf can be downloaded from
<br><a href="http://mailman.thegeek.nu/~dlwillson/smb.conf">http://mailman.thegeek.nu/~dlwillson/smb.conf</a>.
This will have limited
<br>value, since I have stripped all the commenting out of it...
to the extent
<br>that when I really want to know what something does, or how to change
it, I
<br>have to crack open the aforementioned "... Samba in 24 hours" book.
<p>Third and last, here's the whole story. The problem originated
when I
<br>rebuilt my multi-homed Windows 2000 box, Rochester. Previously,
he had been
<br>as much a member of the Internet as the home network. During
the rebuild, I
<br>took steps to help him understand that he was only a client to the
Internet,
<br>and that 'those people out there' really aren't family at all.
One of the
<br>side-effects was that my Linux box, Mailman, could no longer connect
over
<br>Samba, because it had no access to the private 10.x.x.x network, and
<br>Rochester kept registering 10.10.1.1 as his SMB address in Mailman's
WINS
<br>database. I tried many things to get the access going again:
Multi-homing
<br>mailman, in spite of the single adapter. Moving Mailman onto
the private
<br>network, and IP-forwarding traffic from his old address. Even
manual
<br>manipulation of his routing tables. Nothing was fully satisfactory.
<br>Finally, I turned off the WINS, configured Mailman to only use lmhosts
<br>name-resolution, and created a one-entry '/etc/lmhosts' file with
<br>Rochester's external address. BINGO, now my backups work again!
While this
<br>has been brief to recount, it has taken two months to play out in real
life.
<p>David Willson
<p>-----Original Message-----
<br>From: clue-tech-admin@clue.denver.co.us
<br>[<a href="mailto:clue-tech-admin@clue.denver.co.us">mailto:clue-tech-admin@clue.denver.co.us</a>]On
Behalf Of Jeremiah Stanley
<br>Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 2:33 PM
<br>To: clue-tech@clue.denver.co.us
<br>Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] Goodness... a bit of geeky prose.
<p>> was the one who made the changes. Today, I have slain the dragon...
<br>> Well OK, I knocked it out long enough to run to a safe distance.
The
<br>> mis-configuration which prevented my Linux-to-W2000-over-Samba backups
<br>> from processing is gone... My hands feel good.
<p>Mind sharing your config here and explaining what you did to get it
there?
<br>I've always had a _great time_ setting up Samba...
<p>Specifically, what are some resources that you used to learn how to
config
<br>Samba (I find that the default config for redhat based distros never
ever
<br>works right).
<p>JStanley
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