October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
1152 pages
26h 41m
English
Samba can be very complex, so it's important to get the simplest possible implementation of Samba running before making major configuration changes.
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I experienced a rare intermittent problem with Samba in which neither Linux nor Windows clients could connect to the server. The Linux clients reported the following error:
error connecting to 192.168.100.3:139 (Connection refused) Connection to mydesk failed
After placing the following two lines in the [global] section of my smb.conf and restarting Samba, the symptom disappeared:
netbios name=mydesk encrypt passwords=yes
Surprisingly, removing those lines and restarting Samba again did not resurrect the symptom, so with no current way to reproduce ...
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