Topic: Share Name Not Found?

[Scott Duncan]

This is just a transcript of an e-mail exchange that may help some.

 -----Original Message-----
From:    [email snipped]
Sent:   Tuesday, August 29, 2000 14:02 PM
To:   Scott Duncan [Scott@NX2000.NET
Subject: Share Name Not Found?


Scott, you seem to know a lot about SAMBA and I was wondering if you could help me. I Don't want my name posted so please remove it if yo post it to the e-smith board.

My problem is this. I have an NT server as my Primary Domain Controller but when e-smith is in the same workgroup my 95 and 98 workstations get a "Share name not found" error. I hav selected NO in the workgroup section on e-smith for the Domain Master option but it still does this!  I really want e-smith as my server and gateway. Can you help?

 -----My Reply-----


"I sure can, Mr.Hat!" I ran into this one myself. The QUICKEST way is to use a patch Charlie Brady made. This can be downloaded from the e-smith site. The second is just a quick fix by making a custom template using the file "etce-smith   emplatesetcsmb.conf20netlogon". Make it look like this:

# Enable this if you want Samba to be a domain logon server for
# Windows95 workstations.
   domain logons = { $SambaDomainMaster ? $SambaDomainMaster : 'yes' }
   logon script = netlogon.bat

Put it in an new directory called"etce-smithcustom-templatesetcsmb.conf".
This actually takes advantage of the ORIGINAL scripting and will check if it is a domain master or not.

Hope this helps  

-s.

[Scott Duncan]

Hmmm...seems if I put quotes around a directory name it strips out the / !

Live and learn...

[Gordon Rowell]

Scott Duncan wrote:

> Hmmm...seems if I put quotes around a directory name it strips
> out the / !
>
> Live and learn...

Sadly, there is brokenness in Phorum, which all too liberally strips
slashes and sloshes. We have an internal bug on this one, and are
looking into what has to be done to fix it.

Gordon

[Gordon Rowell]

Gordon Rowell wrote:

> Scott Duncan wrote:
>
> > Hmmm...seems if I put quotes around a directory name it
> strips > out the / ! > > Live and learn...
>
> Sadly, there is brokenness in Phorum, which all too liberally
> strips slashes and sloshes. We have an internal bug on this
> one, and are looking into what has to be done to fix it.

OK - magic wand waved- hopefully now fixed.

Here are some interesting characters

~!@#$%^&*()|   Shifted top row
-=\      Unshifted top row
[] {} : ; " '      Brackets, braces, colon, semicolon, double/single quote
<> ? ,. /      Angles, question, comma, dot, slash

"/etc/e-smith/events"   A quotes string with slashes
\         Four sloshes
"\" "/"         A quoted slosh, a quoted slash

Gordon

[Gordon Rowell]

Gordon Rowell wrote:

> [...]
> Here are some interesting characters
>
> ~!@#$%^&*()|   Shifted top row
> [...]

And for the vigilant, I skipped _ and +, that line should be

~!@#$%^&*()_+|   Shifted top row

Anyway, that magic wand worked.

Gordon

[Scott Duncan]

Gordon Rowell wrote:

> Gordon Rowell wrote:
>
> > [...] > Here are some interesting characters > >
> ~!@#$%^&*()|   Shifted top row > [...]
>
> And for the vigilant, I skipped _ and +, that line should be
>
> ~!@#$%^&*()_+|   Shifted top row
>
> Anyway, that magic wand worked.
>
> Gordon

SAAAAYY!...this guy's GOOD!

[Gordon Rowell]

Scott Duncan wrote:

> [...]
> SAAAAYY!...this guy's GOOD!

Thanks, but I just raised the bug. Adrian was the waver of the wand.

Thanks Adrian.

Gordon