hi

I have a linux machine and windows machine. I wanted to share files between these. For this,
I installed samba. configs are same as in default smb.conf. But I can access windows computers
and their files but reverse doesnt work. from windows: following appears-the connection to the machine
doesnt exists.I thought about it and edited onto hosts.allow the lists of win computers as well that I denied in hosts.deny ALL EXCEPT win computers I wnated. Still it diid not work. This is the situation i
am in. In fact, I even tried "vsftp-FTP server" after samba access failed. But ftp could access to itself
but from remote computers (regardless whether remote is another Lin or Win), connection was denied.

I dont know what to think of. Pls do help me.

M

Hi!

Please post your smb.conf file here. You may also need to create/add an user in order to connect to a Linux box with Samba from Windows. Many forget that

yeah..you may be true..will soon do it."send.smb.conf file" once i reach office tomm. Hoewever, is not that with "user=share" option in smb.conf ..no smbuser need be added for accessing from windows?

Good question actually. I had to create an user to be able to access it from a WinXP box. It was no problem though. However, my Xbox could browser the files on my Linux box with Samba without a problem.... I can't figure that out