Connecting with Windows
 

We are new with linux and we are having some troubles to access the linux running pc.

We have installed Samba 2.2.8a and we want to connect mandrake 9.2 with Windows 98. From the Windows neighborhood we can see the machine running linux, but we cannot see the contents.
Please help!!!!!!!

Have you created shared directories on the Linux box? By default linux does not have anything shared although I believe that MS does.

Yes, we have.

The thing is that when we do ping <ipaddress> from windows it appears the following menssage:

Reply from <ipaddress>: unreachable host

Do you think it's a samba problem or a network configuration problem?

Looks like a network configuration problem - I have both Linux and Windows machines on my network NOT running samba and they can see each other just fine - I do a lot of my file transferring using ftp between the machines.

Any idea of how can I solve the problem? :(

I have problems connecting to a windows share it says access denied

nevermind i found the problem

i have been having the same problem, "Access Denied", how did you fix the problem??

Are you using anything like ipchains, iptables, or are you using the default firewall or a third party firewall?

Sometimes with Linux it's almost to easy to deny services you need, with firewalls.

Linux19 will you please post your fix in case someone with the same problem tries to search the forums.

So that you don't get "access Denied" error:

# cd /etc/samba
# vi smb.conf

Find the confg for that samba share, and add to it:

read only = no
guest ok = yes

That should work