Have set up a Mandrake 9.1 Samba server. I have an XP Home PC that can see the server in Network Neighbourhood, but is saying that I don't have permissions, and then that the network path is not found. Neither machine can ping the other - although they can both ping the default gateway router and access the internet.

I have only had this problem since I rebuilt the linux box and included the Shorewall firewall. Any ideas?

Does anyone know how I can configure the shorewall firewall from the command line?

Finally - does anyone know if Mandrake has anything like YaST in Suse - a config utility accessible from the command line - I have no GUI?

You have to allow SMB in Shorewall settings.Settings are in Mandrake control center(something like YaST)-->Security.

I am not sure are there Settings for Shorewall in 9.1,but in 2006 there are.