Getting Samba to work

Hi, I've managed to get Samba partially working.
When I type smb:/sharename in the Nautilus location bar I see all the
windows machines on the network. When I try to login to my own
windows machine it gets me to this pbrweb directory. What is this
directory? I don't see any other directories listed. How can I see
what's on that machine? Was I supposed to specify a windows share?
How should I do that?
Do I have to set up a password in smbpasswd for the Windows machine?
If yes how should I do that?
When I go to my network places on my Windows machine I do see the
Linux box with Samba server on it. I can't access it though. It's
name is localhost (when i run localhost on linux it returns
localhost.localdomain, and I ran smbclient
//localhost.localdomain/myshare -U username). When I click on it I
get a message "localhost is not accessible dubpliate name exists on
the network". But there are no other local hosts there. What am I
doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
N.K.

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N.K. wrote:
> Linux box with Samba server on it. I can't access it though. It's
> name is localhost (when i run localhost on linux it returns
> localhost.localdomain, and I ran smbclient

"localhost" is a TCP/IP standard name which refers to 127.0.0.1, which
should be every TCP/IP machine's loopback interface. I don't know how
well MS Windows machines adhere to this standard ... probably NOT well
because MS tends to disregard / misunderstand standards ... but you
definitely should not try to use that as your system hostname.

Come up with another name, and consult your Red Hat documentation to see
how to change it.

Yes, I know that Red Hat (and Mandrake too?) defaults to a hostname of
"localhost.localdomain" for all new installs. This, unfortunately, is
not a good idea.
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