samba - Jan 2005 - Networking problems - Fedora 3/samba/Win XP

After pulling out most of my hair, someone told me of this mailing list. He 
suggested you may be able to help. Rather than describing my problem again 
(it goes on for a while, sorry). Could one of you brain surgeons look at the 
following link and try and shed some light. Thanks in advance:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=270866&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 13:16 +0000, nad 9084 wrote:
> After pulling out most of my hair, someone told me of this mailing list. He
> suggested you may be able to help. Rather than describing my problem again 
> (it goes on for a while, sorry). Could one of you brain surgeons look at
the
> following link and try and shed some light. Thanks in advance:
> 
>
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=270866&perpage=15&pagenumber=1
> 
> 
Just previewing, you probably can't ping the XP machine because SP2
firewall is on, try pinging from XP<-->XP

For Samba to authenticate XP you must have encrypt passwords ON

You also must enable smb password file and run smbpasswd -a username 

You have the Guest account commented out.

It appears you should throw away that book and visit the samba website.

Additionally you can run samba swat to learn a lot with moderate
configuration help...
http://localhost:901/

You need to make sure swat is installed.

Larry Weldon