The hostname of the PC? I don't think I gave it one

Ok I figure out the hostname. But I never set a password so I have no idea what to put in that field.

Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.7a]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba Server)
ADMIN$ Disk IPC Service (Samba Server)

Server Comment
--------- -------
LOCALHOST Samba Server

Workgroup Master
--------- -------
MYGROUP LOCALHOST

Good, samba is working.
However localhost isn't a good name

As root edit the /etc/sysconfig/network file and change the hostname to anything you want.

To make things easier change the workgroup name in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file to match the windows workgroup name. And restart samba.

On the windows side in network neighborhood do you see the linux box?

Nope I don't see the linux box

Open up a DOS prompt box and try the following command
net view
and
net view \\hostname (i.e. the hostname of the linux computer)

Did you change the hostname of the linux PC yet?

yeah I changed the hostname of the linux box.

when I run those two commands it can't find anyhing.

btw if you wanna do this via aim to make it faster my sn is Hockey77777

and then.......

Can you ping the linux box from the windows box?

ping <ipaddress> or
ping <hostname>

If you don't know the linux IP address then the command is
/sbin/ifconfig eth0

If you have a firewall running it might be blocking smb traffic. To turn it off until reboot.

iptables -F

or

under system setting-security level, this gui tool will launch redhat-config-security-securitylevel

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:6D:1E:F1:87
inet addr:192.168.2.101 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:493 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:485 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:309711 (302.4 Kb) TX bytes:67939 (66.3 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x6000

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\JRB>ping 192.168.2.101

Pinging 192.168.2.101 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.2.101: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.2.101: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.2.101: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.2.101: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.2.101:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

C:\Documents and Settings\JRB>

You can also try this from windows

net view \\192.168.2.101

nothing

If you have a firewall running either turn it off or flush the iptables as posted above and try the net command again.