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!