Re: [SLUG] Strange behaviour of Samba3 with wireless clients

["Martin Visser" <martinvisser99@xxxxxxxxx>]

Carlo,

I presume you also setting up bridging between eth1 and ath0 as per
http://www.linux.com/feature/55617 (and NOT to eth0)

I would assume then you should have an IP address configured on device br0,
and this is also the interface ARP entries of your clients appear (view with
arp -a)

If this is not the case we might need more info (not having played with
Linux bridging for a while)

Regards, Martin

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Carlo Sogono <carlo.sogono@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I have built my own wireless AP with Ubuntu 7.10 and an Atheros-based
> wireless card. My problem is that I can't access any of the Samba shares
> with my wireless clients...they can all search for the server, get
> prompted for a login then it just hangs and eventually times out.
>
> The same clients, when using their LAN ports to connect to the same
> server are able to do everything. I have experimented with the smb.conf
> file to include the wireless AP's device (ath0), subnet and even
> allowing it to bind on all interfaces. During those times, samba *does*
> bind on the device/device's IP when doing 'netstat -tln'.
>
> I have also checked my firewall settings. The rules I have for my local
> LAN on eth1 is identical to ath0 so I don't see a problem there. In fact
> I can do everything on my wireless clients except Samba.
>
> Here are some details of my setup:
> Ubuntu 7.10 server
> eth0 - ADSL modem; running pppoe
> eth1 - local LAN
> ath0 - wireless LAN
> madwifi drivers for Atheros chips
> hostapd to handle WPA2+PSK authentication
> iptables for IP filtering
>
> Am I missing something here? Thanks in advance.
>
> Carlo
>
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Regards, Martin

Martin Visser