hello,
i'm trying to setup a share between my laptop running mandrake 9.1 and desktop running windows 98. I followed the instructions outlined in the O'reilly online book "samba" but i'm not able to see any shares either way. when I issue the command in the book
>smbclient -L
added interface ip=172.16.1.1 bcast=172.16.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Password:


Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
PRINTER$ Disk
HP Printer HP 932C on Maya
D Disk D: on Maya
E Disk E: on Maya

ADMIN$ Disk
IPC$ IPC Remote Inter Process Communication

Server Comment
--------- -------

Workgroup Master
I dont get anything like the book says I should see past the Password line. I have setup a Test directory share on my Linux box yet it doesnt show up in the sharename list.nothing does. In Konquerur i see the the share icon next to the listing for Test. I have the smb.conf file setup per the book w/encrypted password=yes. I see the [Test] section too. the same is true the other way w/win98 box not seeing Linux box. And that I know is setup properly because I have it sharing w/other Windows boxes. The two boxes are connected via linksys wireless ethernet switch.Any suggestions welcome..
alan

just checking, have you restarted your daemons since editing smb.conf?

smbd restart
nmbd restart

yes I have rebooted since and still get the same readout on smbclient -L. I see the message SMB service started ok on bootup but no shares are showing. Am I doing something wrong. I mean all u have to do is right click on a directory and select the share option .correct?

alan

may we have a look at your smb.conf?