samba - Oct 2003 - Connecting XP pro to Linux

I am trying to get my XP pro machine to share files and printers with a Linux
system.
The XP laptop computer is part of my companies domain (abcdef), no workgroup is
specified.

What I have:
All of my boxes are DHCP with a Linksys Firewall/router.
All machines can see the internet.
I can see the Linux machine in the XP network neghborhood.  But when I
try to browse the Linux system my system cannot see the shared
directories.

Where do I find instructions to let my XP and Linux boxes share files,
printers etc?

Best regards,
 Matt                          mailto:MSchedler@wi.rr.com

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Matt Home wrote:
> I am trying to get my XP pro machine to share files and printers with a
Linux system.
> The XP laptop computer is part of my companies domain (abcdef), no
workgroup is
> specified.
>
> What I have:
> All of my boxes are DHCP with a Linksys Firewall/router.
> All machines can see the internet.
> I can see the Linux machine in the XP network neghborhood.  But when I
> try to browse the Linux system my system cannot see the shared
> directories.
>
> Where do I find instructions to let my XP and Linux boxes share files,
> printers etc?
Have you read the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf? It's available from:

	http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf

Chapters 33 and 34 may help you - after you have read the chapters on
"Server Types and Security Modes", "Network Browsing".

- John T.
-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org