I've been playing around with this for a couple of days now, I have read as much as I can here's my situation and problem. I'm running suse 9.2 and trying to get my xp home boxes to play nicely with my samba shares.

Here's what I have set up, my one xp home PC is shared with myself and wife, we have two different profiles, no passwords set. I can mount my samba shares by setting them manually //IP-address/, then it asks for username and password, I only enter a username on the Linux box (no password) and i can mount the shares, etc. If I try to browse for the linux box it doesn't appear in the network neighborhood ( i have tried several smb.conf, variations and not one of them has been browseable). My second problem is printing to the linux box, browsing doesn't show any printers, but I can manually mount it with //IP-address/printer_name and then I have to enter the username again and I have access. Works great, but when I log out and log my wife onto the PC, she can see the printer but it gives here access denied.

I can post my smb.conf file, but I'm not attached to it, I've tried several iterations. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

please post it.

have you added the samba users?


smbpasswd -a <name>