[101252] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Samba
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Parmer \(jasonp\))
Wed Nov 25 12:26:58 1998
From: "Jason Parmer \(jasonp\)" <jasonp@sequent.com>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 08:36:43 -0800
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a) make sure you can ping the machine
b) Network Neighborhood, too put it nicely, SUCKS. Before you decide that it
is the linux box that is foobar'd, see if you can go to (on the 98 box)
start->run->\\linuxsmbname
If it's working, you'll get a window with /tmp... also, you might want to
make sure that you have an account on the linux machine with the same name as
the one you logged onto windows with, with the same password.. that's the
setup I use, woks for me. Good Luck!
Jason Parmer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fran Fabrizio [SMTP:fran@primary.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 4:56 PM
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Cc: recipient.list.not.shown
> Subject: Samba
>
> Hey folks!
>
> I've found the SMB-HOWTO to be woefully inadequate at actually describing
> how to get things working. Can anyone help me? All I want is to be able
> to read/write a drive on my linux box from my Windows98 box. The HOWTO
> doesn't make a single mention of what has to be done on the Windows side to
> make this possible. Also, the sample smb.conf files are somewhat vague.
> This shouldn't be so difficult! smbd and nmbd are already running on my
> linux machine. I assume the workgroup name in the smb.conf and on my win98
> machines need to match, which they now do. Other than that, I don't know
> what to do on either side - I made an entry in the smb.conf for a public
> drive (/tmp for now just to see if i can see it). So, the smb.conf is
> publishing a public drive, the workgroup names match up, and yet, still
> nothing. Can anyone help?
>
> Some notes on current status: On Win98, in my Network Neighborhood, I can
> see
> my local machine, and the Entire Network icon. Clicking the Entire Network
> icon shows only my local machine. So it's just as if the linux box is
> invisible
> on the network.
>
> THANKS!
>
> -Fran
>
>
>
>
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