Hi There, I am a 3 days old newbie to RH 8.0 and Samba

Trying to get my Samba working, went through many posts on this board, did bunch of google searches on the related topics.

Quite positive that my Samba, smb.conf has setup correctly on the linux box.

Now when I am browsing from "my network places" or using "net view" on my W2K Server. the linux box shown, however, when I click on its icon it will then prompt me saying that "the network path was not found"

Side note: I can't ping both IP or Netbios name on either side.

On the linux box, it said something like..." ICMP host unreachable".

On the W2K side, it said request timed out

I was thinking it could be the firewall setting on the linux side,
so I used "chkconfig --levels 345 iptables off", also confirmed it has turned off the iptables succesfully.

Now what else could be wrong or to look at?

I have tested both cable, hub and pretty sure it is functioning correctly (cos other PC on my LAN works fine)!

I am so so confused....please help...I have tried few days and still no luck!

Thanks for you help!

regards,
Samuel

Have you tried other computers to ping the Linux server? Have you checked other computers in that same "hole" that the Linux server is plugged into? Have you checked the network settings? Are they configured through DHCP? If not, is there another computer with the same ip address? Have you tried "netstat -r" to see if the network exists and is correct to your configurations?

Is the server actually 200 server, if so is the samba config setup properly for domain access. you can always post your smb.conf file so we can see it and perhaps somebody here will notice something you missed.

--Alex