OK ...I want to see my vfat share on a laptop runningn RH 9 from a W2K box and I want to see a shared Fat32 from my Linux laptop. Hereś what I have so fat...

[global]

workgroup = sopranos
server string = samba server
netbios name = tonysbox
hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127.
; guest account = pcguest
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
pam password change = yes
obey pam restrictions = yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
wins support = yes
guest ok = yes
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
dns proxy = no
[commonfat]
comment = a fat32 share
path = /commonfat
browseable = yes
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
valid users = cevjr
create mask = 0765

and my host file on the Linux laptop looks like this
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.0.4 tonysbox.localdomain tonysbox

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I DID NOTHING to my W2K box; and from linux I can see and have access to the W2K's fat32 partition.

However, when I am on the W2K box and trying to access laptop running Rehat 9, I only see the group, I drill dowm and I see tonysbox and then I cannot access it. WHATS WRONG!!! Please help, this is the second time I have posted this but this time I have given you my settings.

Your help is appreciated.
C.

Sounds to me like you need to add a user to smbpasswd file.

Have you used the smbpasswd command yet?

I have experienced some problems with samba,w2k and xp.

I may have got this wrong, but I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the network authentication in w2k and xp differs from the ones in earlier windoze versions.

One solution that worked for me, was to disable encrypted passwords on the samba server, restart it, run the win2k-plain-password.reg file that comes with the samba documentation, and restart the w2k or xp machine.

Or it might just be enough to do a smbpasswd -a user password on the samba server..

Samba is runing fine with encrypted password. You must set share level=user and add a user with smbpasswd -a user.

I think u r not using smbpsswd to join ur domain if it is on windows...
if this is the case use following command first join ur domain

smbpasswd -j UR_DOMAIN -r MACHINE_NAME_OF_WINDOWS - Uadministrator%password

if ur domain/workgroup resides on linux laptop then just create a user and assign that user a password using

smbpasswd -a username

command

now login with this user on windows machine and u ll be able to acces ur tonybox machine

another thing is a parameter in global section "password server"
uncomment it and give ur domain name or netbios name of authentication server.It ll help u access ur tonybox without any error.

It would have been very clear if u give the error u recieved on accessing the machine...
hope u get help from it...

IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everything was fine!, Do you know what I did? I just turned off the firewall setting and SAMBA worked.

I then downloaded Firestarter and tuned my firewall to accept my LAN PC's and everything was working great!

THanks for the help though.

PS I had to install swat package also, bec Redhat 9 did not include it in the installation.