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I'm having an awful time trying to configure samba (client and server) here. This house has windows machines with shares, and this linux machine with lots of shares (file server) No matter what I do though, I just can't get anything to work right. When I go to remote:/ on the linux machine, there are no shares there, even though there should be about 15 (from the various windows boxes) When I go to the windows machines, they can see/access each other's shares just fine, but none can see the 1 share on the linux box that I've configured. Also, when I go to remote:/ and go to SMB shares, it pops an error saying "Unable to find any workgroups in your local area network"
Is there some sort of walkthrough somewhere for configuring network shares or can you guys help me here?
Thanks,
Kevin
In the firewall settings, I set it up to allow connections to the samba server on this machine. I'm trying to figure out one thing at a time.
So, I guess the first thing I need to do is figure out why the windows computers aren't viewable on this linux box. How do I check if Samba is running? That's all I want to do right now - Just be able to connect from the linux machine to the windows machines....What's the first step here (I'm completely new to linux network configuration....which is why I'm totally lost)
Kevin
I'm in the init.d directory right now and there is nothing even resembling 'samba' save for smbfs that I mentioned before. Could this maybe mean that samba-server isn't even installed??
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