Long Time Samba No Work-Need Expert Help On Samba/Networking

[Leonard Chatagnier]

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> > From: "Brian McKee" <brian.mckee at gmail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,
> 	not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:26:56 -0400
> Subject: Re: Long Time Samba No Work-Need Expert
> Help On Samba/Networking
> 
> >  not adding duplicate interface 192.168.1.64
> 
> This might be injecting noise into this conversation
> - but I find that
> line weird...   Are you running Network Manager AND
> have a static ip
> set in /etc/sysconfig/networking?    or any idea why

> that would
> appear?
> 
> Brian
> 
I like noise when it on a prob of mine. I don't have
/etc/sysconfig/networking in my /etc. Maybe because I
use Kubuntu Desktop but gnome is installed. So, is
Network Manager but haven't been able to access it
from Kubuntu and haven't tried Ubuntu Desktop which I
plan to do.
Anyway, I think I know why as Karl indicated. In
smb.conf the defauls "Interfaces" entry has 127.0.0.1
and eth0. One of the problems I had with samba and
mounting was that the netmask for the WXP machine
wouldn't resolve. I had already added the IPs for both
machines but not the /24.  When the /24 was added, the
netmask issue went away. I don't recall when the
duplicate thing first showed up but it was before I
added the /24 to the IPs.
An unanswered question I have is why didn't the eth0
entry in Interfaces recognize the wlan0 adapter on the
WXP machine? Samba(smbmount) didn't see the WXP
machine until the WXP IP no./24 was added to the
Interfaces in smb.conf. If you could answer this
question it would add a lot to my insight.
Thanks for the inquiry,

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net