samba - Dec 2002 - questions from a newbie

I have several newbie questions - any help much appreciated:

1. I run a combination Windows 98 and XP home network - have been looking at
Linux on two boxes at home - one desktop - one laptop - RH 7.3
2 I can get samba to run okay and in each of the two Win98SE machines can
see them as localhost
3. I cannot access any resources on the Linux machines - Win98 asks for a
password - \\localhost\IPC$ - I must be missing a step
4. All I want to ultimately do here is see files on the linux box in my home
directory - for starters - thanks.

David
David I. Sommers, Ph.D.
Scientific Review Administrator
Interventions Review Committee (ITV)
National Institute of Mental Health
6001 Executive Boulevard
Room 6144, MSC 9608
Bethesda, MD 20892
Rockville, MD 20852 (for express or courier service)
301-443-7861 - voice
301-443-4720 - fax
dsommers@mail.nih.gov - email

On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 03:17:29PM -0500, Sommers, David (NIH/NIMH)
wrote:
> 3. I cannot access any resources on the Linux machines - Win98 asks for a
> password - \\localhost\IPC$ - I must be missing a step
Have you added a share for those machines on the samba server?
If not use the smbadduser command to map them to a directory
> 4. All I want to ultimately do here is see files on the linux box in my
home
> directory - for starters - thanks.
- Jerry M. Howell II

Your trying to access the Linux machine from the Windows machine by using
localhost?  localhost generally points to the local machine.  Try using the
IP address instead.  Also, make sure guest access is turned on for the
share.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sommers, David (NIH/NIMH) [mailto:dsommers@mail.nih.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 3:17 PM
> To: 'samba@lists.samba.org'
> Subject: [Samba] questions from a newbie
> 
> 
> I have several newbie questions - any help much appreciated:
> 
> 1. I run a combination Windows 98 and XP home network - have 
> been looking at
> Linux on two boxes at home - one desktop - one laptop - RH 7.3
> 2 I can get samba to run okay and in each of the two Win98SE 
> machines can
> see them as localhost
> 3. I cannot access any resources on the Linux machines - 
> Win98 asks for a
> password - \\localhost\IPC$ - I must be missing a step
> 4. All I want to ultimately do here is see files on the linux 
> box in my home
> directory - for starters - thanks.
> 
> David
> David I. Sommers, Ph.D.
> Scientific Review Administrator
> Interventions Review Committee (ITV)
> National Institute of Mental Health
> 6001 Executive Boulevard
> Room 6144, MSC 9608
> Bethesda, MD 20892
> Rockville, MD 20852 (for express or courier service)
> 301-443-7861 - voice
> 301-443-4720 - fax
> dsommers@mail.nih.gov - email
> 
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Also don't forget to add the user to your linux box using useradd.