Samba not seen by windows

I got a stable version of RedHat 9 installed on redhat 9 with samba installed. I go to my win2k pro machine and when I look in the network neighborhood I see the redhat machine Icon along with my other systems, but when I go to click on the redhat server it tells me that the network path is not found. does anybody have any Ideas.




Robert
p.s. and don't say try some other Version of Linux I am sick of loading other OS over and over

Do you have a firewall on your Win2k machine?

No I don't think so I just installed win2k no firewall software on the system and my server does not see it either.



RObert
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If it's Microsoft just run

hello.

make sure you have some of this stuff in these files.

/etc/samba/smb.conf

Code:

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security = SHARE
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
guest ok = yes

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/etc/samba/smbusers

Code:

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root = admin john whatever
nobody = guest anon etc

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the username mapping stuff needs to be there if you have security = SERVER (i think).

make sure you setup your shares like

/etc/samba/smb.conf

Code:

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[testShare]
    path = /usr/net/share/images
    read only = yes
    public = yes
    create mask = 0555

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i don't think samba likes you sharing stuff out from /root. i'm not sure about normal users homes. i'd assume it would allow it.



if all fails try either of these for more, though you should read both regardless.

Code:

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[user@machine dir]$ man smb.conf
[user@machine dir]$ man samba

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