Hi,

i am running ferdora core 3 on one machine and have it networked to another running windows 2000. I have a samba server set up the fedora machine and use linneighborhood to mount folders from the windows machine. This was all fine until i had to reinstall windows due to adware problems. I have set the windows machine up with the same ip address and the same list of users as before. But now when trying to access the shared folders, with the fedora machine using linneighborhood, it allows me to add the machine and 'scan as user' which produces a list of all the shared dir's on the windows machine, but when i try to mount them it comes up with "SMB connection failed". and does not mount the folder.

I think it must be something to do with the setup of the windows machine (and could quite possibly be a very simple problem to solve) as it was working before i reinstalled. But for the life of me i cant seem to see what i have done wrong.

Any suggestions gratefully received

Perhaps I'm missing something but I recall when I set up my windows machine to access Samba I had to map the drive from the windows box to the samba server.

I dont exactly understand what your saying, what do you mean when you say " i had to map the drive from the windows box to the samba server."

The strange thing is i can access the shared files on the linux pc from the windows machine, but i can not mount any of the shared folders on the windows machine, from the linux box. I've tryed using the smbmount command with no luck, it still gives the same error.

Sorry i understand what you mean now about mapping network drives on the windows PC (having a bit of a dumb moment). But the thing is i can access my files on the linux box by running the ip address of the linux computer from the windows one, so thats not the problem. Its accessing the files on the windows machine that is the problem.

Have a look at your log files of samba in /var/log

Cheers
Newbee

Cheers for the help guys, but last night it decided to start working without me doing anything. Its very strange, i have no idea why it suddenly decided to work.