Setting Up Samba with a LinkSYS Cable Router

Jack Malone
Tue, 18 Sep 2001 05:27:02 -0000

I have this linksys cable/dsl router here at work an at home an had a samba
server at both locations. No problem at either location . I have a mix of
win95/98/me at work an they see the server. I'm letting the router serve up
ip's for now til i get that working on the linux box. Im using suse linux
by the way.  Not sure what your problem is. can you manuelly setup the
win98 box to see the samba server, not by browsing. ex go into my computer
on the that machine an under tools click on the map network drive, an give
the path to the samba server, here is my path ex \\Horizon\horizon\ . where
as \\Horizon is the name of the machine an the \horizon is my share name on
that server.

give that a try an see if it works for you.

jack malone
Network Administrator
Horizon Industries


At 09:50 PM 9/17/2001 -0400, Gary Stanton wrote:
>I can not get my linux server to show up in my network neighborhood in
>windows98.  I am using a LINKSYS cable router to network two pcs
>together.  I know my network is working fine because I can connect from
>one windows pc to another but not to the linux box.
>
>I think the problem has something to do with the router be a DHCP
>server.  I don't think I am setting up some of the ip addresses or names
>correctly to allow the machines to talk to one another.
>
>Has anyone had any experience connecting a linux and windows pc using
>LINKSYS DSL/CABLE ROUTER??  If so,  maybe you could tell me what I may
>need to do.
>
>Also, when I run "smbclient -L localhost" I get a connection
refused and
>connection to local host failed after it says what addresses it has added.
>
>Thanks for your help!
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