samba - Nov 2002 - samba running, but invisible to network!! please help...!!

greetings all samba gurus......

i am a student trying to configure samba for my lab..i have done it
successfully before once...but this is a new server that i have installed
redhat 7.1 (original ed) into...

now the problems i am facing are this..

1. my smbd and nmdb are running, but when i attempt to use smbclient on
localhost, i *can not* do so from root account....only after i login as
my samba user account, or su into that account..i am able to use
smbclient... thus smbclient is not working via other accounts...

2.when i try to connect to my samba server from windows
network neighbourhood, i cannot login...even if my windows userid is the
same as my linux id...it still asks for uasername and passwd....

3.i get to see the computer icon...but i do not get
the server string beside it like 'lab samba server'...besides i can get
the samba server only after searching by its ip address...its netbios name
does not show up.....

in short my problem can be summed up as :

smb and nmb are running.
i can 'smbclient' from localhost into localhost only from same
account,but
not from any other
machine..even other linux box is not smbclient'ing....windows too does not
recognise server string....
i have checked allow hosts and deny hosts parameters in smb.conf...i have
granted
access to all hosts..still not able to use smbclient from other
machines...


please help.....i shall ever be grateful....
thanks in advance....

Seemanta Dutta
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