In your smb.conf file make sure you have the shares public. ex: [MyDownloads] comment = Mike's stuff path = /home/mikesd/downloads public = yes writable = yes printable = no guest = ok
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bo Peng Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 7:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Samba Begin with the very basic smb.conf first. Clients like smbclient are easier to set up than smbserver. Anyway, depend on your smb.conf, you might need to run smbpasswd to set password for user.. I can send you my first working smb.conf is you still have problem. Bo On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 09:52:53AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to set up a samba server however no matter what I try I > can not seem to browse my shares from a windows machine. I can view > the Samba server in network neighborhood but if i click it (or do a > net view) I just recieve an error. On the Samba web site there were > some tests to try and all of them worked (pinging, browsing shares > from the samba server using smbclient etc.) right up until it said to > do a net view from the windows machine. I have tried different > settings in my smb.conf and so far nothing has worked. > Thanks, > Nathan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list