Can't get Samba right..help!

I'm running Windows XP on one machine and Suse Linux 9.1 on another. The
Linux box automatically detected the Windows machine and showed shared
folders in the network browser. But my Windows computer didn't see my Linux
computer. So I went into the YAST configuration utility and turned on the
Samba server. The Windows machine could now see my shared Linux folders.
But now, the Linux box can't see the Windows machine. All I did was turn on
the Samba server, but it seems to have screwed up something else. Any
ideas? Thanks.

Hiawatha Bray wrote:
>
> I'm running Windows XP on one machine and Suse Linux 9.1 on another. The
> Linux box automatically detected the Windows machine and showed shared
> folders in the network browser. But my Windows computer didn't see my Linux
> computer. So I went into the YAST configuration utility and turned on the
> Samba server. The Windows machine could now see my shared Linux folders.
> But now, the Linux box can't see the Windows machine. All I did was turn on
> the Samba server, but it seems to have screwed up something else. Any
> ideas? Thanks.

two things:
1 - Get the Samba Howto book from the internet!
2 - Read it!

it will tell you how to configure your windows shares and linux smb.conf
file in order to view everything. It is WAY TO COMPLICATED to drill
through everything one line at a time here, and you cant afford my
consulting fees over the net. :^)

Joe
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hi,

you wrote a crossposting, thats not a good idea.

> I'm running Windows XP on one machine and Suse Linux 9.1 on another.
> The Linux box automatically detected the Windows machine and showed shared
> folders in the network browser. But my Windows computer didn't see my
> Linux computer.

Cause he isn't in the same workgroup? And what "Windows computer" is it and
what Samba version you have? Why you didn't show us your smb.conf?

> So I went into the YAST configuration utility and turned on the Samba
> server.

Maybe this is your mistake. Better to read and write in the smb.conf. YaST
cannot do all the stuff smb.conf is belonging to.

> The Windows machine could now see my shared Linux folders. But now, the
> Linux box can't see the Windows machine. All I did was turn on the Samba
> server, but it seems to have screwed up something else

Are you sure, the damons nmbd and smbd both are running?

> Any ideas?

Of course. But without a look to your smb.conf all ideas have to be inclosed
in the famous "Glaskugel"

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:52:25 +0000, Hiawatha Bray wrote:

> I'm running Windows XP on one machine and Suse Linux 9.1 on another. The
> Linux box automatically detected the Windows machine and showed shared
> folders in the network browser. But my Windows computer didn't see my Linux
> computer. So I went into the YAST configuration utility and turned on the
> Samba server. The Windows machine could now see my shared Linux folders.
> But now, the Linux box can't see the Windows machine. All I did was turn on
> the Samba server, but it seems to have screwed up something else. Any
> ideas? Thanks.

man samba
www.samba.org

and if that is too much for you to read:

www.microsoft.com and purchse a copy of Windows XP.

If you want to be spoon fed use Windows, if you are interested in using
Linux you MUST PRECISELY read the documentation.
There simply is no other way.

"Hiawatha Bray" <(E-Mail Removed)> skrev i meddelandet
news:ttGud.1323$P14.1034@trndny05...
> I'm running Windows XP on one machine and Suse Linux 9.1 on another. The
> Linux box automatically detected the Windows machine and showed shared
> folders in the network browser. But my Windows computer didn't see my
> Linux computer. So I went into the YAST configuration utility and turned
> on the Samba server. The Windows machine could now see my shared Linux
> folders. But now, the Linux box can't see the Windows machine. All I did
> was turn on the Samba server, but it seems to have screwed up something
> else. Any ideas? Thanks.
>

http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba.html

Peter Von Gasenhousen <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:52:25 +0000, Hiawatha Bray wrote:
>
>> I'm running Windows XP on one machine and Suse Linux 9.1 on another.
>> The Linux box automatically detected the Windows machine and showed
>> shared folders in the network browser. But my Windows computer
>> didn't see my Linux computer. So I went into the YAST configuration
>> utility and turned on the Samba server. The Windows machine could
>> now see my shared Linux folders. But now, the Linux box can't see the
>> Windows machine. All I did was turn on the Samba server, but it
>> seems to have screwed up something else. Any ideas? Thanks.
>
> man samba
> www.samba.org
>
> and if that is too much for you to read:
>
> www.microsoft.com and purchse a copy of Windows XP.
>
> If you want to be spoon fed use Windows, if you are interested in
> using Linux you MUST PRECISELY read the documentation.
> There simply is no other way.
>
>

Goosestep much?


Later......

Labrat...... |:^{)


He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
So, let's get busy!

"Conny" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:ZfVud.124175$(E-Mail Removed):

>
> "Hiawatha Bray" <(E-Mail Removed)> skrev i meddelandet
> news:ttGud.1323$P14.1034@trndny05...
>> I'm running Windows XP on one machine and Suse Linux 9.1 on another.
>> The Linux box automatically detected the Windows machine and showed
>> shared folders in the network browser. But my Windows computer
>> didn't see my Linux computer. So I went into the YAST configuration
>> utility and turned on the Samba server. The Windows machine could
>> now see my shared Linux folders. But now, the Linux box can't see the
>> Windows machine. All I did was turn on the Samba server, but it
>> seems to have screwed up something else. Any ideas? Thanks.
>>
>
> http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba.html
>
>
>

SWEET! Terse. To the point. No qualifiers and helpful to boot!

Exactly the kind of response that will advance Linux to it's righful
place .... Well dressed Emporer of the computing world!


Later......

Labrat...... |:^{)

Peter Von Gasenhousen wrote:
> man samba
> www.samba.org
>
> and if that is too much for you to read:

....you can also use Swat or Webmin to configure Samba.

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