samba - Sep 2002 - Problem Seeing Linux Machine From Windows Machine

I am very new to Samba, so please excuse this naive question.

Samba seems to be working properly from my Red Hat 7.2 system.  I am
using a GUI called xSMBrowser, and am able to transfer files back and
forth to the Windows machines on my network.

I now want to access my Linux system from a Windows 98 machine.  I can see 
it ('Mail') in 'My Network Places' within the workgroup called 
'WORKGROUP', but I do not see any folders.  I am logged into the Windows
machine as 'skidmore'.
Here is a snippet from my 'smb.conf'.  I am obviously doing something 
wrong:
===========================================================================# A
private directory, usable only by fred. Note that fred requires write
# access to the directory.
[skidmore]
    comment = Barry's Service
    path = /home/skidmore
    valid users = skidmore
    public = no
    writable = yes
    printable = no
============================================================================So,
shouldn't I be able to see my home directory (skidmore) under 'Mail'
in Network Places?:

Network Places
    WORKGROUP
       Mail
         skidmore

Thanks,
Barry Skidmore
(Samba novice)

Yes you should see it. But you have to apply a user in
the lindoze and samba server named skidmore. You must
use the same passwds all three places.Windoze,linux
and samba.

 


--- Barry Skidmore <skidmore@mail.worldvenue.org>
skrev: > I am very new to Samba, so please excuse this
naive
> question.
> 
> Samba seems to be working properly from my Red Hat
> 7.2 system.  I am
> using a GUI called xSMBrowser, and am able to
> transfer files back and
> forth to the Windows machines on my network.
> 
> I now want to access my Linux system from a Windows
> 98 machine.  I can see 
> it ('Mail') in 'My Network Places' within the
> workgroup called 
> 'WORKGROUP', but I do not see any folders.  I am
> logged into the Windows 
> machine as 'skidmore'.
> Here is a snippet from my 'smb.conf'.  I am
> obviously doing something 
> wrong:
>
===========================================================================>
# A private directory, usable only by fred. Note
> that fred requires write
> # access to the directory.
> [skidmore]
>     comment = Barry's Service
>     path = /home/skidmore
>     valid users = skidmore
>     public = no
>     writable = yes
>     printable = no
>
============================================================================>
So, shouldn't I be able to see my home directory
> (skidmore) under 'Mail' 
> in Network Places?:
> 
> Network Places
>     WORKGROUP
>        Mail
>          skidmore
> 
> Thanks,
> Barry Skidmore
> (Samba novice)
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Change the following to 
[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no 
   writable = yes


so that you can see your home directory


if you want you can go to start -> run

type in

\\mail\skidmore


this should bring up the folder that you want.

John,

The problem I seem to be having is that the members of the WORKGROUP
do not appear stabily:  they disappear and reappear when the WORKGROUP
window is refreshed over a span of about 5 minutes.  The Linux server
appears only rarily, so I am not surprised that I am having problems
seeing the Linux shares.

So, I am about to give up on doing things from the Windows side.  I
can exchange files back-and-forth between Linux and Windows from the
Linux side of things just fine.  To do this I am using a very nice
GUI called 'xSMBrowser', which I highly recommend.

On the other hand, if you have any other thoughts on this problem,
I might make one more attempt.

Barry

On 09.20.2002 21:08 John Benedetto wrote:
> To see what is available, and 'accessible', go to a command prompt
on
> one of your Windows clients, and excute 'net view \\server_name'. 
It
> should return all of the shares & printers that are available.
> 
> - john