[wellylug] Samba & DHCP config ?

[Roger Young]

Thanks Cliff for your explanations.
I had a few problems with the passwords
but that is all resolved now. Now I can
sit back and enjoy my broadband connection.
What a relief after years of dial-up which
was getting increasingly constipated...

Cheers,
Roger

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:46:44 +1300
Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:

> You don't assign a share to a user on another machine. A 
> user on another machine accesses a share made available on 
> your machine. For that, he/she needs to know either the name 
> of the machine AND have a way of converting that to an IP 
> address OR the IP address of your machine.
> 
> eg all the following will list the shares on my server 
> (debian) from my Windows machine (honeybee).
> 
> net view debian
> net view debian.cliffs.bogus
> net view 192.168.2.67
> 
> In the first two cases the 'net' prog takes the name and 
> uses the name service (NetBIOS or DNS) to find the IP 
> address of the Samba server. Then it sends packets to the IP 
> address of the Samba server to find out information from the 
> Samba server. If a mapping had previously been made then 
> data would be transferred between the Samba server and the 
> other machine over the connection that was made when the 
> share was mapped or the machine was rebooted (if a 
> persistent mapping had been made).
> 
> The Samba server doesn't know how to connect the machine 
> name and IP address. The *client* sends request to the Samba 
> server. Either the connection has already been made 
> previously in which case the *client* remembers the IP 
> address of the server, or the request (eg net view) contains 
> the name of the server or its IP address. If the request 
> contains the name then the *client* has to resolve this (by 
> NetBIOS or DNS) before it can contact the server. There has 
> to be name resolution before a connection can be made to the 
> server.
> 
> *Name resolution* to IP address comes first, and actually 
> connection follow. Name resolution can be by DNS or by 
> NetBIOS (WINS), but the end result is an IP address which 
> can be used to start communications.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cliff
> 
> Roger Young wrote:
>  >
> > Alright, now suppose I wish to assign a share on my machine
> > to a user on another machine. How do I refer to that other
> > machine if I don't know it's IP address (although Samba does)?
> > Is it (as Ian suggested) that the Samba server knows how to connect
> > machine name and (router assigned) IP address, so it is sufficient
> > to identify the share in smb.conf by machine name?
> > 
> 
> 
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