Re: Help: My girlfriends XP box can't see my Linux samba shares
don_pettengill_at_spamgilent.com
Date: 09/13/05
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:13:32 +0000 (UTC)
Mike Martin <hroller@nospam.gmail.com> wrote:
: Linux box CAN print to printer shared off XP box, I can see files and put
: files on that box.
: XP Box can NOT see Linux box.
: I'm fairly sure my samba.conf is correct, I believe I have a user and
: samba password that works, but the XP box doesn't even show another box on
: the network.
: I've goggle'd all over and read ten different sites for Samba conf but I'm
: not sure this is the problem.
: Mike
1) I believe Windows browses the network as "guest", so make sure you
have a "guest" account in linux and that "guest" (and maybe "nobody"
too) is allowed acess in smb.conf.
2) Even if you can't browse the network from the XP box - and there are
good reasons for setting it up that way - your XP box can still access
an allowed share with
\\192.168.1.15\sharename
Here, replace the IP address with your Linux box IP address, and
"sharename" with the share name. If your PC has DNS through the Linux
box, or otherwise, you can use the Linux box name instead of IP address.
3) You will need encrypted passwords and also to set up smbpasswd (add
the user and set password to same as on XP box). "Or something like
that".
4) The XP box and Linux box are in the same, private subnet, right?
What are their IP addresses? If you can print I assume that's OK.
5) If you try to access the share name as above and cannot get in, look
at the Samba logs. They will log the access attempt and tell you -
sometimes - what the problem is.
The other advice you got about testing your samba setup is good. Do
that first. One of the above is usually what I screw up :-)
Don Pettengill
Agilent Laboratories
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