Thanks for reading my e-mail. I am a newbie to Linux and I am running RH Linux 7.1. I have installed Samba and I am having a problem trying to get it configured to be a file server. I would like to share files with Windows and Linux boxes. When I try to connect to the Linux from a Windows box I get an error: \\saturn is not accessible. No service is operating at the destination network endpoint on the remote system. Or I get \\Saturn is not accessible. The network path is not found. Help! I can see the Linux box on the Windows browser list in Windows Exlporer but I can't access it. Thank you, Merle Howard
Hi, Did you configure /etc/samba/smb.conf? Create some shares on the linux box and use testparm to check if all is ok in the conf file. you can try smbclient -H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (IP) to check if the linux can access to its own shares, would be good for starting. You must configure Windown Networking correctly for this to work. WorkGroup, users, etc. And don't forget to add users with smbadduser. Read the docs, could be helpfull. Hope it helps. Bruno Veldeman (Girona - Spain)