Yet Another Newbie Samba Question
 

I'm so new to Linux, only yesterday I realized it was an OS and not an ancient Roman waspon of destruction.

My question is very simple. (i've tried incessantly to solve it myself but no luck)

What am I doing wrong?
I want to use Samba to newtork two computers. I want to enable the WINXP machines to get files off the linux machine

First Computer RedHat 9
Second Computer WinXP
connected with crossover cable and 2 standard ethernet NICs (no hub, routers no wifi nothing fancy)

I can ping the linux box from the WinXP box and the winXP from the Linux box . (Both TX and RX the packets) but when I try to run samba and click Network Servers in RH's GUI i get an error saying

Couldn't display "smb:///", because Nautilus cannot contact the SMB master browser.
Check that an SMB server is running in the local network.


my smb.conf
[global]
netbios name = Linux
server string = Itstime
workgroup = Network
security = SHARE
log file = /var/log/samba.log
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
encrypt passwords = yes
guest ok = yes
guest account = binary2
wins support = yes
host allow = 192.168.0
interfaces = eth1

[public]
path = /tmp
guest ok = yes
writeable = yes

[binary2]
path = /home/binary2
writeable = yes
comment = LinuxMusic
guest ok = yes

I've browesed smaba.org followed there steps no luck, searched google spent 10-15 hours no luck

Any help/comments/suggestions are greatly appreciated

I see you're running redhat 9. Make sure you don't have the firewall running. Redhat turns it on by default, so kill it if you're not using it.