Hi all,

Recently I changed from Mandrake 10 to Fedora core 2
However I haven't been able to set up Samba for file sharing in fedora core 2.

Samba works just fine in Mandrake 10, however now the windows machines doesn't appear in the samba4k list

Can someone point out what do I have to configure to get this working.

Every reply is much appreciated
Thanks

hi

can u see the shares of the window machine by
smbclient -L <ip ad. of the win machine>

regards

Check first your Fedora box if Samba is already working:

# smbclient -L localhost

It should display the shares you defined in your smb.conf. If not, your smbd and nmbd daemon is not yet started.

# /etc/init.d/smb start

To automate it during machine boot up:

# chkconfig --levels 2345 smb on (Just try to figure out if its just smb or smbd cause I'm now using Slackware, almost forget it now.)

Edit your /etc/hosts file and put all your clients IP with their corresponding netbios name so that you'll just make use of their hostname when mounting remote shares instead of IP address.

# smbclient -L localhost
smbclient -L <ip ad. of the win machine>

both commands above works, I can see my own machine, and I can see my friend's WInXP machine. However when I use Smb4k I can't detect any network.

I have no Idea how to configure smb4k, the docs provided with it doesn't answer much.
Alternatively how do I mount the share folder manually?

smbmount //hostname or IP/sharename /mnt/smb

create smb directory inside /mnt/. no need to put permission (chmod).

Try it now. I'm still awake. It's already 11.20PM here in Manila.

hi to mount that share

smbclient '//192.168.0.20/My Documents' /mnt/smb

should work for u
this share name is case sensitive also

regards