Hello again,


After doing a search on Samba in previous posts, I still cant find the info i need.

RH 7.2 & Win2K

I can see my linux box from windows, but cant access the shares. In windows i get the message "network path not found". I can ping both ways, linux to windows and windows to linux but thats about it.

Ive set up a Samba user to match the user name im logged in to windows with.
Im using password encryption on Samba instead of modifying the windows registry.

Where to go from here ?

A few quick thoughts:

If pinging works, the next step would be to try the following two commands from the Win box:

net use \\Linux_Server's_Name\homes

net view \\Linux_Server's_Name

If these don't work, you might have a problem with the NETBIOS naming on one or both machines. Check that, as well as the hostname/IP address entries in the various (and numerous) places that they occur on both machines.

Also, if necessary, make sure your shares on the Linux box have the "browseable=" option set to "yes".

You can usually check to see if samba is setup correcly on the Linux side by using the smbclient on Linux. On the same linux machine at the command line type:
This will hopefully give you a clue to what is wrong.

post your smb.conf file

I can successfully use smbclient //my_server/my_share -U user_name





when i do, i get the samba prompt for a password and after entering the password i get - smb: \>





So I think Samba is setup correctly on the linux box...it just seems to be a matter of connecting from windowz

my linux shares have "browsable" set to yes

net use and net view both do not work, i get "network path not found". they also take a long time to return. its the same effect when i try to browse the network workgroup. it takes along time then pops up a message "netowkr path not found"

I have entries for the linux box in my windows hosts file, and the lmhosts file. Again, I can ping the linux machine from windows, and see it in the workgroup, but when i select it, i get "network path not found"

let me see what you have in your smb.conf file
i also run 2000 and linux with samba shares

#Samba config file, names changed

[global]
workgroup = my_workgroup_name
netbios name = my_linux_box_name
server string = Samba server on my_linux_box_name
hosts allow = ip list here
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 0
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
smb password file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
socket options = TCP_NO_DELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
dns proxy = no

[homes]
comment = Home directories
browseable = yes
writeable = yes

[my_share_name]
comment = my linux share
path = /home/share
browsable = yes
valid users = linux_user_name_here
writable = yes
read only = no
printable = no
create mask = 0765

try adding this to your global section

interfaces = (eth0 ip#)/24 (eth1 ip#)/24