samba - Aug 2003 - Help getting Samba to work (duplicate name on the network!)

Hi, I'm new to Samba. It came with my Linux distribution.  I followed
directions in my red hat linux book and modified smb.conf.  It's partially
working.  If I type smb: in Nautilus location bar I do see all the windows
machines on the network.  When I try to log into my windows machine I can see
only one directory called: pbrweb.  What is that directory?  How can I see
others?  What should I set up on the windows machine to see other directories?
Now, what I would really like is to see a Linux share from windows machine. 
When I go to my network spaces I do see a machine Localhost and comments say
it's a samba server.  When I try to access it I get a message:
"Localhost is not accessible, duplicate name on the network".  I
don't see any other Localhosts there.  My only guess  is that our other
Linux box is running samba too and the hostnames for both of them are localhost.
How do I solve this problem?  Can I change a hostname?
Can there be 2 samba servers on the network?  Is there a problem with netbios
name?
I'm getting really lost....
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
N.K.

Do you want the Samba machine to be a primary domain controller?

If so I would suggest looking at the following documents.  They helped me to
set up Samba.  You already have it installed so you can ignore the section
on installation.

Start with the one at IBM and take it step by step.

Do you have a line stating "netbios name = xxxx" in your smb.conf
file?
This tells Samba what name to use in network neighbourhood.



http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tutorials/samba/index.html


http://networking.earthweb.com/netos/article.php/1144701

http://networking.earthweb.com/netos/article.php/1151091


Remember to include the

domain logons = yes

command in your smb.conf file.  This is required for Windows 2000/XP  logons
even though the literature suggests otherwise.

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