On Saturday 05 April 2003 01:06 am, gabriel wrote: > any idea what that means? here's what i've done: > > installed gentoo 1.2 running X 4.2 & kde 3.1.1 > emerged vmware-workstation > ran the config program and guessed at the values > (pretty much went with the default every time) > installed windows98 on the syntetic partition. > > and where's what i can do > run programs > install stuff > surf all over google etc. > > but i can't do the most important thing for me: > i can't connect to samba shares on my own network. > > double-clicking on "network neighbourhood" brings up the usual > window, with "entire network" and "alexandria" (my samba fileserver). > but double-clicking on alexandria produces the following error: > > \\Alexandria is not available > No permission to access resource
That means your Samba server doesn't recognise your windows user. See: Man smbpasswd and man smb.conf The Windows user has to be logged in on a username recognised by the samba server. Shares must be defined in /etc/samba/smb.conf > what does that mean anyway? i've setup windows to use the same > username and password that i use on this machine when i reboot to > windows (i also have a windows partition) and it works when i go > that route. i've also tried disabling the firewalls on both boxes > (desktop and fileserver) to no avail. the only sticking point that i > can find is the network config in windows... i'm using a different ip > than the "host" computer: > > gateway: xxx.xxx.xxx.1 > desktop: xxx.xxx.xxx.2 > desktop (vmware: win98): xxx.xxx.xxx.5 > fileserver: xxx.xxx.xxx.3 > > if anyone on this list has any experience with vmware etc. i'd > greatly appreciate some pointers ;-) > > thanks -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
