The first time I run Network Servers after booting, it works. I see the hosts and resources available on my NT domain. On the second attempt, the grey 'ball' icon in the top right corner spins for a while then stops, but there are no icons in the window. On subsequent attempts, the 'ball' does nothing and no icons appear. No error or warning windows appear. After a reboot, everything works on the first attempt again.

I've searched for the terms "Network Servers", smb, samba, Nautilus. I can find plenty of references to an error message about smb being unavailable and playing with the domain master browser. Since it works the first time and I'm not getting an error, I -assume- this doesn't apply.

Obviously it's possible I've got the Samba config screwed up somehow. I can find plenty of references to configure Samba if I want the Linux system as a file server in a peer-to-peer environment or as a file server in an NT domain. What I'm having trouble finding is how to configure a Linux box as a plain vanilla client in an NT domain.

Red Hat 9; I'd include the Samba version if I knew how to find it. Please excuse the newbie; I'm used to clicking on Help, About, and getting the version number of the entire application. I have to keep remembering the GUI's are separate apps from the service in the background. Unfortunately, searches for Linux, find, "application version" have yielded nothing.

Greetings,

To get the version of Samba try:

"ls /usr/doc | grep samba"

That's a pipe in the center. It should work from anywhere.

I don't have a /usr/doc directory. I've got a /usr, but no /doc under it.