Samba Problem With Incredible Pbx 2.0

[grillovillegas]

Hi guys...

After the installation i was trying to setup samba on the incredible pbx 2.0 so i did

configure-samba

and followed all the steps, passwords, network
restarted the machine open the ports ......

but for some reason the machine its not showing up on the network of windows or mac...

i manually can see the folders if i access the machine by the ip \\192.168.1.100 but for some reason its not broadcasting the name and not showing up

Any tweek ? to enable that feature ....

Thanks in advance.

Grillo

 

[grillovillegas]

aparently the script already did that, because i checked ip tables and there is two entries for samba.....

it seems more related to the script itself.... i notice that if i start

/usr/sbin/nmbd

manually it works.....but i am not sure if its the right way.

 

[GomezAddams]

I think you have to make some tweaks in the samba config files to make it do SMB announcements and register with the browse master on the network.

A browse master is elected from the available SMB "servers" in a broadcast domain based on a set criteria. Your best bet is probably to make Samba always win browser elections.

See this for more info on Samba and network browsing http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html

 

[rossiv]

For some reason I think the SAMBA scripts were reportedly broken recently...I could be wrong though.

 

[grillovillegas]

For some reason I think the SAMBA scripts were reportedly broken recently...I could be wrong though.

I think so... because i tried everything here and i cannot manage to broadcast PIAF to the network at all !!!!
Only if i do manually like i explained before.....

 

[grillovillegas]

Perhaps Samba is not starting automatically on system startup. Using Webmin, System, Bootup and shutdown, confirm that the services "smb" and "winbind" are set to start at boot.

Hi this is how is for default maybe that could be the problem ???

nmbNoStarts and stops the Samba smbd and nmbd daemons used to provide SMB network services

winbindNoStarts and stops the Samba winbind daemon

smbYesStarts and stops the Samba smbd daemon used to provide SMB network services.

I just enabled nmb and now I can see the machine on the windows network.

 

[randy7376]

If you want your PBX to be visible to Windows PCs, nmbd must be running. That's the component that handles/advertises the NetBIOS names visible to Windows and others.

If you already have a WINS server on your network, you might want to point the PBX to it. If you're running Active Directory, you do not want Samba to be your Browse Master - that should be left to one of the domain controllers on the LAN.

If there's no AD, having Samba as the Browse Master is fine. You do not need to run Winbind unless you want to enumerate AD accounts to Samba for authentication on Samba shares.

 

[grillovillegas]

If you want your PBX to be visible to Windows PCs, nmbd must be running. That's the component that handles/advertises the NetBIOS names visible to Windows and others.

If you already have a WINS server on your network, you might want to point the PBX to it. If you're running Active Directory, you do not want Samba to be your Browse Master - that should be left to one of the domain controllers on the LAN.

If there's no AD, having Samba as the Browse Master is fine. You do not need to run Winbind unless you want to enumerate AD accounts to Samba for authentication on Samba shares.

Randy , Thank you for your aclaration !!! I really appreciate it .

 

[grillovillegas]

I think you have to make some tweaks in the samba config files to make it do SMB announcements and register with the browse master on the network.

A browse master is elected from the available SMB "servers" in a broadcast domain based on a set criteria. Your best bet is probably to make Samba always win browser elections.

See this for more info on Samba and network browsing http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html

Sadly some links in that article are not working .....

I installed another box and for some reason i cant enable the samba browse i already did enable the smb , nmb and winbind but nothing.....

I am not able to see the directory shares on windows

here is a copy of my smb.conf

[global]
workgroup = mshome
server string = pbx
local master = no
domain master = no
preferred master = no
password server = None
guest ok = no
security = user
dns proxy = no
encrypt passwords = True
passdb backend = smbpasswd
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
hosts allow = 192.168.1. lo
hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0
interfaces = 192.168.1.111/255.255.255.0
bind interfaces only = yes


[Home]
writeable = yes
public = yes
path = /root

I also tried disabling iptables but nothing.

Any help will be very much appreciated

 

[GomezAddams]

The links are broken, but all of the information is in that page, you have to scroll down.

Here's what you could try:

If you don't have a WINS server on your network, make your Samba a WINS server and point all of your clients to it.

If you already have a WINS server, point Samba to it.

You might try the remote-announce specifying your local network's broadcast address.

You do have Samba and all of your clients in the same workgroup, correct?