Hi everyone. I am a newbie to smb and samba. I have 2 PCs at home and have connected via network. One PC is fully win98 while the other dual boots to Linux. I wanted the win98 to see the Linux machine while running Linux on the Network Neighbourhood. I am running RedHat 6.1 with Samba 2.05a. Now I have followed the Howtos and other help materials but I still can't see my Linux box on the win98 Nethood. Can anyone help me here. I also want to know how to browse the network to see all the win9x PCs on the network. For instance, on a win98 PC all I have to do is click on the Network Neighberhood Icon and a window pops up showing all the PCs connected on the network with the prior knowledge of these PCs. Any help and suggestions are very much appreciated. regards, Venantius. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Venantius Kumar wrote:> > Hi everyone. > I am a newbie to smb and samba. I have 2 PCs at home > and have connected via network. > > One PC is fully win98 while the other dual boots to > Linux. I wanted the win98 to see the Linux machine > while running Linux on the Network Neighbourhood. > > I am running RedHat 6.1 with Samba 2.05a. Now I have > followed the Howtos and other help materials but I > still can't see my Linux box on the win98 Nethood. > > Can anyone help me here. > > I also want to know how to browse the network to see > all the win9x PCs on the network. For instance, on a > win98 PC all I have to do is click on the Network > Neighberhood Icon and a window pops up showing all the > PCs connected on the network with the prior knowledge > of these PCs. >Double check that both machines are on the same network (meaning that they have IP addresses and subnet masks that place them on the same logical network). make sure your linux network is actually up - ifconfig should help you should be able ping from either machine to the other by IP The workgroup= setting in smb.conf must be the same as the workgroup setting on your win9x boxes. you want security = user (default) remove the semi-colon from the encrypted passwords option in smb.conf as win95b and newer use encrypted passwords. This will not break wfw3.xx or any older win95 clients BTW. Make sure the samba daemons are running - /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb status if not then /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start make sure you have smbusers/passwords set up - see man smbpasswd make sure you've logged on the win9x box with a username that will be recognized on the samba box. you can also use testparm and smbstatus as diagnostic aids - both have man pages you can consult. Hope this helps. -- Mike Rambo mrambo@lsd.k12.mi.us