Adam Cripps wrote:
> Calling all samba gurus - I have a machine running Samba on my main
> network and want to make shares available on my wireless network.
> However, it seems that my wireless router has a problem with these
> shares.
>
> My current network is set-up thus:
>
> ADSL router (DHCP)
> 192.168.1.1
> |
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> | | |
> Wireless (DHCP) Samba Other machines
> 192.168.1.3 192.168.1.7 192.168.1.*
> 192.168.11.1
> |
> -------------------------------------
> | |
> Laptop 1 Laptop 2
> 192.168.11.2 192.168.11.3
>
> (Apologies if the text representation gets mangled).
>
> Basically, the machines on the 192.168.1.* network can mount the samba
> shares normally, but the laptops in the 192.168.11.* network cannot.
What do you get in the logfile?
what does "netstat -rn" show
For instance do you have a line similar to the below
/sbin/route add -net 192.168.11.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.3
> I have placed the following line in my smb.conf file:
>
> hosts allow = 127.0.0.1, 192.168.
>
> but I think this is only half of the story as I have to put in an
> interfaces config line.
> I've read documentation, but it seems to be based around to separate
> networks and I'm not sure what to do with the interfaces part.
No - if like my home system samba is running of a firewall box and
you wish to NOT offer SMB services on certain interfaces THEN you
need to configure intefaces. My (new) firewallhas 4 NIC's but
thankfully no longer runs samba. My old box runs samba and offers
shares to two of the three interfaces.
> Can anyone advise what else I need to add to the smb.conf file to make
> the shares accessible from the wireless network? Ideally, I'd like to
> place this in [globals] as I will be adding a printer later on.
Fist does ping and traceroute (tracert under windows) work.
If not then your routing is the issue.
if it does then send a snippet of the log file.
> A full copy of the smb.conf file can be seen at:
> http://www.monkeez.org/linux/smb.conf.txt
Could not see anything wrong.
If you want mine for comparison (via private email) let me know...
I also run smbfs on the same machine and have client/server issues
due to XP but that in my (well MS's) problem... :-)
Jacqui
