I am firmly convinced that Samba was created by the devil.

Okay, first of all I've already searched for help on this and every example I've used just doesn't work.

Here is the problem I'm running into: I can see the Windows boxes from Linux, can browse their drives, etc. However, the Windows machines can never see the Linux box. EVER (as in the Linux box never shows up in Network Neighborhood on the Win machines). I've been fighting this off and on for a few months now and I'm determined to get this working.

Specifically, what I'm attempting to do is share my home directory (/home/shakyjake). All the systems have the user name "ShakyJake" in an attempt to make things simple.

Can someone give me a simple working example of a smb.conf that allows files to be shared off a Linux box that's seeable to a couple of Windows machines? Just a bare bones example that will get it up and running.

Thanks.

Probably be easier if you posted yours.

Are your shares set browseable?

Also - I'm assuming that your samba server is not providing DHCP services, right? you might consider changing that, and providing WINS services on your samba server too.

Go www.samba.org - take a look at two books there - Samba By Example, and TOSHARG. Both of these contain everything about Samba, and are kept up to date.

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