Hi,

I am trying to set up some simple file sharing between my Win XP Home box and my redhat 7.3 box.

Using SWAT I have created a share called linuxbox-share, but the linux machine does not show up on my Win XP network places at all. I know that its tricky to use Win XP Home for samba, due to the fact that it has trouble traversing domains, however peer to peer samba shares should work?

If I check the shares tab in SWAT, I see that smbd is not running but nmbd is. If I click restart smbd then nothing happens. Also on this screen I can see that I have no active shares on the Linux machine. Now, if i type smbclient -L 192.100.10.4 at the prompt I get the following:

added interface ip=192.100.10.4 bcast=192.100.10.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast 127.255.255.255 nmask=255.0.0.0
session request to 192.100.10.4 failed (Not listening for calling name)
session request to 192 failed (Not listening for calling name)
session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening for calling name)

Now im pretty sure that I get this message due to the fact that smbd isnt started.

Can someone help me out here?

From a command line, run "service smb start" as root. Then, check it with "service smb status". If it's not running, try "service smb stop", and then restart, and then check again. If it won't run after that, post your /etc/samba/smb.conf so we can take a closer look.

Check the samba logs for errors @ /var/log/samba