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workgroup Does this have to match a Win98 workgroup or match a linux goup?
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This has to match the workgroup of which your Win98 box is a member. Samba makes one up for you, but the default Samba-created workgroup does not, in my experience, ever match the default Windows-created workgroup of any of the Windows versions, so you have to change it.
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Is the user in Samba different then the ones Linux?
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No, but the users listed in smbuser have to be registed users of the Linux system in question. If I'm not mistaken, the "outside" users have to be registered as well (either specifically and individually, with their Windows username and pw, or you'd have to allow guest access, so that the network users would be mapped to the guest account, which does not require a username or password to be authenticated by Samba).
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netbios name Do I need to fill in this block?
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Yes, unless you want to be filling in IP addresses all the time. It's the name of your PC as it will be seen on the network, and is also used for name resolution (so that the network server knows what your ip address is, without which it can't communicate with you).
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server string Do I need to fill in this block?
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No, but it is polite. It's the description field for your Samba server; it will show up in the Properties of your PC when clicked, or in the "comment" field if Details view is on.
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interfaces Do I need to fill in this block?
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I would imagine so (I don't use SWAT). I would guess that this is asking you what interface (NIC) you want the Samba server to use. If you just have one, it would be eth0, but suppose you had two and one was connected to your modem and the second was connected to the network? Then you'd want the interface to be eth1. Btw, according to
the SWAT section of the Samba documentation:
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SWAT has context-sensitive help. To find out what each parameter is for, simply click on the Help link to the left of the configuration parameter.
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You might to try this. That's what the help is for, after all.
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Now if I double click on "Entire Network"
Then 2 computes show up
Iwill
localhost
However if I double click on "localhost", I get an error like message. "Localhost is not accessible.
The computer or sharename could not ve found. Make sure you typed it correctly"
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What is happening here is two-fold;
1) you have set a workgroup of which the Win98 machine is not a member, so even if it was valid, the Win98 machine could not access shares in that workgroup; and
2) you have set a netbios name that specifically resolves to an IP address different from anything that the Win98 machine has access to (localhost always resolves to the loopback address of 127.0.0.1, which is not on the network, and not in any workgroup).
So change your workgroup to whatever the workgroup of the Win98 machine is, and and change your netbios name to something other than localhost.... the same as your hostname is always a good choice (unless your hostname is also localhost, in which case make it "joe" or something).
You might want to read
the Samba documentation,
O'Reilly's "Using Samba" (online version). or
Rute's Tutorial, Samba section.
Hope this helps.
