Re: [SLUG] Wireless Samba issues?

From: Ronan Heffernan (ronan@iotcorp.com)
Date: Sat Jul 20 2002 - 03:52:50 EDT


Darr Palmer wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I have been playing with several AP's and various wireless cards on my
> network. Everything works fine when I am connected to the network with
> copper, but when I go wireless I lose my Samba connectivity. I can see the
> rest of my Windows computers, but I cannot see any of my Linux boxes.
> Although my Postfix mail server works over the wireless link. But none of my
> Samba shares are visible. I am using the Linksys WAP11 AP and both a Linksys
> PCMCIA card as well as an Cisco Aironet card.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Darr
>
>

I'm guessing that you could actually use the shares, your Windows
machine just can't find them. You are probably just missing broadcast
messages. Have you tried hard-coding the IP address of the SAMBA server
as the WINS server on the Windows machine?

--ronan



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