Samba w/ XP
 

Hey guys,
I just installed Fedora 3 on a 1GHz machine, and have it hooked into a network with 2 XP machines.

I have setup Samba correctly (somewhat) and reviewed the smb.conf and everything looked good.

When I go to workgroup computers from within XP, it will see the Samba machine and prompt me for user and password (which I had previously setup) and everything is good, and I can share files.

However, when I go into Network Servers from the taskbar within Fedora, I see all the computers on the network, but when I double click on them, it will not prompt me for a user, thus resulting in a failure to connect.

Basically I need to know what I'm doing wrong so that Fedora 3 can access XP shares -- and it would be nice to change the default name from Samba Server (192).

Cheers,
-Matt

Mount it manually. Open a terminal and type:

smbmount //yourwindowsXP/yoursharedfolder /mnt/data

The above command assume two things: You have samba server/client installed and also smbfs. Indeed, you have to replace your "//yourwindowsXP/yoursharedfolder" by first the name of your machine on the network and then by your shared folder on that machine. You may also need to create /mnt/data, or mount it somewhere else.

To change the name of your server, I think you have to edit your smb.conf. Find a similar line to this one:

server string = <Name of your server>

Good luck!

are you sure you have your folders on the xp machine shared correcty? can you access one xp machine from the other xp comp?