Hi,
I am trying to set up samba on a laptop running xubuntu (xfce as desktop environment on ubuntu) as server and a laptop running opensuse as client. Later I want to add some windows machines as well, thats why its samba and not nfs.
On the xubuntu machine I installed samba, samba-common and smbfs. I generally followed the guidelines posted here to install the samba server:
http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Share_files_using_Samba
I edited smb.conf, made [homes] browsable and readable and created a smb user
I cannot mount any shares.
On the Suse machine, I just changed the workgroup name to the same one I entered in the /etc/samba/smb.conf and I dissabled the firewall (which is also not the ultimate solution). I used yast2 for that.
from the client (suse machine) I can access smb://'workgroupname' as well as smb://'samba-server-name-as-typed-in-smb.conf-under-xubuntu'. There a single folder appears, called 'homes' which I cannot access.
I am lost. I have no idea where to go from here, I only started using linux about a month ago, and I would really like to get file sharing to work, so please be patient and adapt replies to my limited understanding of linux.
Thanks
Tobias