[wellylug] Samba / printer /windows

[Lindsay Hunter]

You may have covered it already but I cannot see where you say that 
Samba restarted when you rebooted.  This has happened to me whent he 
Samba was setup but not added to the xinetd (sp)  In a command line in 
Linux, use smbstatus and it will tell you if things are up and about, or 
use ps -aux | grep smb.  Then 'service smb restart' and it will confirm 
where you are.  Then try the other suggestions.  Windows should find 
another workgroup, but if you are using domains, which are MS use of the 
word, not Linux use, then user/passwords become important. 

Lindsay

E.Chalaron wrote:

>Hi all
>I have a strange thing here.....
>I did set up a printer server on my linux box #1 so my windows machine #2 can 
>use it to print. Worked fine til.........
>I have unplugged the windows machine disconnected from the network, added a 
>beautiful 3 Gb hard drive, went to France for few weeks, turned the all lot 
>down and when I came back rebooted the all lot.
>
>To my surprise the windows machine (#2) can not see the Samba server on Linux 
>box #1.
>Now looking in the windows network specification it appears that domain group 
>is not defined anymore as OEMWORKGROUP like it is in Samba.conf.
>
>The linux box is working Ok, had a look under the logs, no complains, which 
>makes me think that the trouble is coming from Windows (me playing with 
>windows really)
>
>Any idea where to look under windows. My guess is it should be a fairly 
>common error but I do not know where to look really.
>Cheers
>E.
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