Hi all, I'm having probs in getting my Win XP system in seeing my Suse system. I've pinged Suse which was ok but thats about it. There set-up on the same workgroup, just don't see each other. I tried following this link http://www.tweakhound.com/linux/samba/page_1.htm Any help would be appreciated! Cheers Jason

I've never had any problem getting Suse and Windows to "play nice" (I'm currently using suse 9.3, but I've run the gamut from Suse 8.x). And it sounds like you've got basic connectivity (at least one host can ping the other). And your choice of workgroup shouldn't matter - my connectivity is fine with completely separate workgroups in different PCs.

I really don't have enough information from your description to even guess where the problem might be.


A couple of suggestions:

1. Make sure each host can ping the other
2. Make sure that you've got at least one user on BOTH windows AND Linux with the SAME username and password
3. Go into Samba's "swat" UI and create a couple of shares (preferably owned by your "common user")
4. Go into Windows Explorer and set up a couple of shares
5. On Linux, go into konqueror and try "smb://YOUR_WINDOWS_HOST". See if you can see any of your Windows shares.
6. On Windows, go into [Start], Run, type in "\\YOUR_LINUX_HOST". See if you can see any of your Linux shares.

Here's a link that might help:

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/l...ba-trouble.htm

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the reply! I've now uninstalled Suse and installed PCLinuxOS .92. Excellent O/S, which is feature rich! I'm dual booting this with Win Xp SP2 (Lilo not Grub) with no probs. Question I do have is on Win XP I have configured the MTU setting to 1400 from the default 1482 (AOL as ISP). Will I have to configure it with PCLinuxOS? I'm unsure because there on the same disk drive.

Many thanks

Jason