I've recently installed Ubuntu 6.10 on my Dell Inspiron laptop and am trying to get it working on my home network that has three Windows XP Home boxes, one Linux box running FC5, and another FC6. I have SAMBA up and running on the laptop - sort of. I used the same smb.conf file that was working well for me on the Fedora boxes, and can access windows shares from the Ubuntu box, but not vice versa. I can see the laptop as a Samba Server in XP's Network Neighbourhood, but cannot access it.

I'd like to use SWAT to configure the smb.conf file, and have installed and enabled it, but whenever i enter http://localhost:901/ in Firefox i get this error message: SAMBA is configured to deny access from this client. Check "hosts allow" and "hosts deny" options in smb.conf. I suspect whatever is wrong is the same reason that I cannot access the laptop shares from XP.

Does any one have any suggestions as to what I should do?