Mandriva shares NOT showing up on WinXP Box
Could someone here explain to this NEWBIE how to find my Mandriva box/shares on my Win XP ( My Network Places) box using Mandriva L.E.?
I can easily see and access my WinXP box/shares from my Mandriva computer using SAMBA, but *NOT* see or access my Mandriva box/shares from the XP computer! I know this can be done, as I have done this myself in the past using Knoppix. I think all I had to do was set the Knoppix box as a Samba Server. Any simple NEWB explanation would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks in advance to anyone who might care to respond to my question. Matt |
Hey Matt,
What does you smb.conf look like? Do you know where to look for it? Here's mine - it allows my RedHat 9 system's shares to be seen by all XP machines on my network: [global] netbios name = stefan workgroup = GOEDEHOOP10 security = share log file = /var/log/samba.log log level = 1 socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=16384 SO_SNDBUF=16384 wins support = yes domain logons = no logon drive = f: logon home = \\stefan\%U os level = 99 preferred master = yes local master = yes hosts allow = 196.254.255.10 196.254.255.11 196.254.255.20 196.254.255.30 127.0.0.1 196.254.255.40 196.254.255.50 196.254.255.60 encrypt passwords = yes browseable = yes lanman auth = yes lm announce = yes [shared] path = /mnt/win/shared guest ok = yes writeable = yes create mode = 0666 directory mode = 0777 browseable = yes public = yes Hope this helps? |
No I`m afraid I dont know how or where to look for the smb.conf!
Could you please enlighten this NEWB? Thanks for your kind response Matt |
Well on RedHat 9 at leat the smb.conf file is located at these two places:
/etc/samba/smb.conf and /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf and apparently you need to edit both in order effect a parameter change. What I usually do is to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and then just copy it over the other smb.conf file. After doing that, you need to stop and restart SMB services. As root, do in a terminal: killall smbd killall nmbd smbd -D nmbd -D This will restart Samba with the new settings you just made in the configuration files. Hope this helps! |
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