Hi folks, I am realy stuped here. I installes (clean reformat) 6.1 on the server and instaled the samba package. Now things no longer work. 1/ printing from the samba server (setup via yast/network/configure printer via samba) no longer works 2/ Nothing comes up in the windows network nieborhood browser thing ma jig I have checked that pasword are plian text so this is not the problem 3/ the only way the samba server can see the other shareed windows deviceies is via smbclient -L winserver -B 10.20.30.3 ect.. smbclient -L winserver give a failer "coinection to winserver failed" any ideas I have browsable in each shared directry enty in smb.conf Thanks Samy -------------- next part -------------- [global] workgroup = workgroup guest account = nobody keep alive = 30 os level = 2 security = user ; Uncomment the following, if you want to use an existing ; NT-Server to authenticate users, but don't forget that ; you also have to create them locally!!! ; security = server ; password server = 192.168.1.10 ; encrypt passwords = yes printing = bsd printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY map to guest = Bad User ; Uncomment this, if you want to integrate your server ; into an existing net e.g. with NT-WS to prevent nettraffic ; local master = no ; Please uncomment the following entry and replace the ; ip number and netmask with the correct numbers for ; your ethernet interface. interfaces = 10.20.30.1/255.0.0.0 ; If you want Samba to act as a wins server, please set ; 'wins support = yes' wins support = no ; If you want Samba to use an existing wins server, ; please uncomment the following line and replace ; the dummy with the wins server's ip number. ; wins server = 192.168.1.1 ; Do you wan't samba to act as a logon-server for ; your windows 95/98 clients, so uncomment the ; following: ; logon script =%U.bat ; domain logons = yes ; domain master = yes ; [netlogon] ; path = /netlogon [homes] comment = Heimatverzeichnis browseable = no read only = no create mode = 0750 ; The following share gives all users access to the Server's CD drive, ; assuming it is mounted under /cd. To enable this share, please remove ; the semicolons before the lines ; [cdrom] comment = Linux CD-ROM browseable = yes path = /cdrom read only = yes locking = no [check] comment = check book application browseable = yes path = /usr/shared/check readonly = no public = yes [inv] comment = invioce tracking application browsable = yes path = /usr/shared/inv readonly = no public = yes [mdance] comment = moneydance java checking application browsable = yes path = /usr/shared/mdance readonly = no public = yes [printers] comment = All Printers browseable = no printable = yes public = no read only = yes create mode = 0700 directory = /tmp -------------- next part -------------- # See exports(5) for a description. # This file contains a list of all directories exported to other computers. # It is used by rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd. /usr/shared/inv /usr/shared/check