Hi!

I can't seem to access my Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP2) box from my RedHat Linux 9.0 box. The network IS functioning correctly (I can ping to and from each computer) however, I can't access the Windows XP box's shares from the Linux box. At the moment, SMBD isn't running at startup (even though I selected "Server" install when I installed it - grrr. RedHat!) but even when I execute:

#smbd -D

I still cannot see the Windows XP box at all:

(smb://xpbox in Konqueror)

what am I doing wrong? I don't know but I think that you do NOT need a smb.conf file to access other computers on the network but even so, I have a valid one there (checked with testparm - /etc/samba/smb.conf [#testparm]) but this still doesn't make a difference. I am sure that I am allowing the IP in the hosts allow section but I still don't know what could be wrong.

PLEASE HELP!!!

Have you configured LISa daemon? (in the kde control center) If you have problems configuring the LISa daemon then try LinNeighborhood http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/ , it works great.