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

[Carlo Sogono <carlo.sogono@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Visser wrote:
> 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)

I did not bridge my wifi device with my ethernet as I wanted to separate 
the subnets for both networks (for more control). Someone in the Samba 
list mentioned that it sounds like an MTU problem. Will play around with 
MTU settings when I get home...

Carlo


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