Those of you may remember a while back I have posted a thread about me having trouble accessing my windows shares, well finally got my windows box to show in the LAN browswer under linux , i see my computer , which is toyotomi.nihon.jpn, and 192.168.1.3 , which is the windows box. I went in the windows box and under the connection settings, added the host minamoto.toyotomi.nihon.jpn , but it just gives the ip address, which is ok i guess, because i can see both hidden shares (C$, E$) and the normal share called FILES. I can access the files ok, but when I try to open a media file , mp3 or wav , xmms pops up, but does nothing... I can play my media files from MY own hard drive, but not from the windows share..... Any ideas on a solution?

maybe u can post your smb.conf here.

yea I guess i should, cause since i got an idea, maybe i can use smbmount to mount a drive to the shared files, and maybe that way i can properly access all the files... so i tried smbmount, but came up with an error.

root@toyotomi:/home/hideyoshi# mount -t smbfs -o username=administrator,password=mechfighter //192.168.1.3/FILES /FILES
params.c:OpenConfFile() - Unable to open configuration file "/etc/samba/smb.conf":
No such file or directory
Can't load /etc/samba/smb.conf - run testparm to debug it
Could not resolve mount point /FILES
root@toyotomi:/home/hideyoshi#

but i don't have an smb.conf , i just have an smb.conf-sample , so the conclusion is obvious, i haven't properly configured samba , but the answer to that is , I don't know how to properly configure it , how do I do it?f

I don't have samba installed on the machine I am using now.

For start you can cp smb.conf-sample to smb.conf and edit from there.

It is pretty heavily commented.

And I don't think you have /FILES directory created. You need to create the directory first before you can mount your windows share to it.

ok, i will try that, one more question , the windows share is NTFS , if i mount it with samba as a drive , should i mount it read only? or can samba SAFELY write to shared NTFS ????

I think it is safe to mount it as read writeable. Samba allows you to use windoze networking. Therefore it does not directly touch your harddrives. All the file access is still done by the Operating System and not samba. Samba just present the request and what not.