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I'm very new to samba, but I've searched this forum and didn't find anything that helped. I've got a samba server up & running on Fedora 6, and Windows 2000 on a different PC. My question is, what do I use to look at the computers on my network? Do I go through the file browser, or do I use a system command in a terminal window? In a previous installation, I was able to look at the files in the file browser. When I try that now (click on computer, then double click on network,then double click on Windows network, then double click on the workgroup, I get the messsage "The folder contents could not be displayed, sorry, couldn't display the all the contents of "Windows Network: workgroup". Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong, and how to fi it?
Thanks....
First of all, what distro are you using?. You may want to check out your distros help forum as Samba is displayed different, in different distros.
You may have to edit your /etc/smb.conf script
to make sure that your workgroup name is listed
in the global settings. Set your security as "share" and not user.
Check to make sure that you have shared folders
on your Windows computer.
You may have a firewall issue. Samba is somewhat
complex and requires some of this to
understand it better.
I checked and file sharing is on on my Windows machines, and the workgroup is specified in my smb.conf file. When I attempt to connect to the workgroup using the file browser (I click on Windows Network, then the workgroup name), all I get is the message: "Couldn't display "smb:///haden. The location is not a folder". If I change the command to "smb://haden", I get the message "The folder contents could not be displayed. Sorry, couldn't display all the contents of "Windows Network: haden". (BTW haden is the workgroup name.) Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong? From my windows machines, I can connect to the server and access the files on my linux box, but can't go the other way. I've been reading books & websites all day, please help!
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