Samba and RedHat 8 amd WinXP

[Anton Markov]

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PW Armstrong wrote:
| Sorry - wrong subject heading.
| _____________________________________
| Hello  -  I've been working with Samba, trying to network my RedHat 8 pc
| and my WinXP computer.
|
| I set up samba using SWAT, and my RH pc shows up in my WinXP Network
| Places>Microsoft Windows Network>Samba1, as a member in the workgroup I
| defined (called Samba1).
|
| However, whenever I try to access either of the shares (I only defined
| 2), I get the error 'network path was not found' on the XP computer.
| I've checked the permissions and they are fine.
|
| Also, I can't access my XP computer from my RedHat computer either, so I
| guess I've got a few more things to do.
|
| Any suggestions for fixing these two issues?  Thx very much.


On the linux computer, run:

smbclient -L localhost
smbclient -L <name of Linux computer>
smbclient -L <name of winxp computer>

(the names of all computers in the workgroup show up at the bottom of
the 'smbclient -L localhost' command).

The commands should list the shares available on each computer. Next,
from the Linux computer, run:

smbclient //localhost/<your share>
smbclient //<name of linux PC>/<your share>

Both of these should allow you to connect to the same computer and give
you an FTP-like access to the share. If this works, then you will need
to adjust your WinXP computer. If not, then the problem is on the Linux
side. In either case, it should give you more information about what's
going on.



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