did you restart samba after you edited smb.conf? i failed to do that once and coulnt for the life of me figure out why it is not working... try something like #/usr/sbin/samba restart i think it is also possible to send a HUP signal to smbd and nmbd... try it out of course i am assuming that you have the basics down right (workgroup, computer names etc...) double check them just to be safe... also you might want to check the archives; someone posted an smb.conf file a while back that looked legit, look into adopting parts of that file... -munir > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:16:43 -0500 > From: "Nate Moore" <moorenate at uswest.net> > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: [TCLUG] samba issue scontinued > Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > Greetings again I was asked to clarify my earlier > post, which I included > below: > > Greetings all. > I am having a bit of difficulty setting up samba > on my Linux-mandrake > 8.0 system. Thought maybe some of you would have > suggestions. As far > as I can tell all the software and drivers are up > and running properly. > The way I have my network configured is as follows. > I have dsl running > into the cisco 675 router, which outputs to a hub > connecting the > network. There are 3 boxes on the net. 2 are win98 > and my linux box. > All the boxes pull down ip's via dhcp from the > router over the hub. the > ip's are all in the 10.0.0.* range. Currently I am > able to access the > net on my linux box, but can't see the win98 > machines. I have tried my > luck at setting up samba with SWAT, to no avail. > anything I should be > looking for right off the bat? or anything to > check. I have looked > over some how-to's at linuxnewbie, and the standard > linux how-to, and it > seems that I am doing everything right. anyhoo, let > me know if you have > thoughts. > > I ran ifconfig and pulled up: > eth0 inet addr 10.0.0.2 Bcast: 10.0.0.255 Mask > 255.255.255.0 > lo inetaddr 127.0.0.1 mask 255.0.0.0 > > the win98 machines are getting > ip 10.0.0.3 and 10.0.0.4 on the same mask > > after setting up samba in SWAT, I am unable to reach > the other machines > via ping or any other device, and likewise they can > not "see" me. Is > there anything I would need to change in the win98 > boxes to allow this > to work, as of yet I have left them be. Mostly I am > looking to reach > just one of them which has the storehouse for all my > mp3's so that I can > access them here (once I find the right driver for > my Montego2 aureal2 > soundcard (I know it isn't stable, but It worked on > my mandrake 7.2 > box)). Thanks, and sorry for the long post. > > -nate ===== -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT GIT dpu- s:- a19 C++ UL P+ L+(++) E--- W+ N+ w(--) K? O-- M- V- PS+ PE-(--) Y-- PGP-(---) t 5+++ X R tv-- b+++ D++ DI++ G e+ h+() r- y+ UF++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/