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..., Thanks for all your help. I was realy going nuts, bonkers , ecttt...I have finaly found the following , and have thingfs working , but it is still not working as it should. 1st / if I disable file and print sharing on the win 98 machine m save and exit , the linux server comes up in the network nieborhood. Real sweet , as long as its turned off. HOWEVER turn it back on , and it disapears. No longer there. 2nd / if (withg file and print servioces ON) I right click and map a shared device from the samba server ( whick now goes thri\oght succesfull) then double click on network nieborhood , double...

Hi folks, here is a quick update. 1/ the samba server does not come up in the network neiborhood. However if I use a net shre e: \\linux\shared then that ci\onnection is made. It still does not show(the connected device) in network nieborhood). It does shoew in the file exporer ect.. on the win98 machine , I have reset and chaned the networking drivers , and even changed the machine name and ip address. No changes if I DISABLE file and print sharing on the win98 machine then the samba server shows up.n Why I have no Idea , if I go b...

Hi folks, I am realy stuped here. I installes (clean reformat) 6.1 on the server and instaled the samba package. Now things no longer work. 1/ printing from the samba server (setup via yast/network/configure printer via samba) no longer works 2/ Nothing comes up in the windows network nieborhood browser thing ma jig I have checked that pasword are plian text so this is not the problem 3/ the only way the samba server can see the other shareed windows deviceies is via smbclient -L winserver -B 10.20.30.3 ect.. smbclient -L winserver give a failer "coinection to winserver fa...