On 21 Jun 2002 at 8:48, Praedor Tempus wrote: > > In windoze I set the desktop to be "Overlord" and set it to share files > and printers. On the linux laptop, I then tried to do a "smbclient -L > 10.0.0.5" to get a list of shares from the desktop. Nothing. No shares > found. I also tried "smbclient -L Overlord" with the same results. > What am I missing in trying to get file and print sharing going between > a windoze (windows me) and linux box? This is my first time trying this > so be gentle with me please. Assuming that You are using a simple peer to peer setup , the linux laptop needs to have a user defined with the same login name and password that is used on the windows system.This user needs to added in both the system and samba's configuration.If you have the cash or can find it in a library,SAMS Teach Yourself Samba 2nd edition made my life much easier when I set Samba up on my home network, Ray Warren
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