On Friday 24 October 2003 09:25 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:52:18 -0400 > > Dan Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could someone piont me to a link or such on how to set up a two > > computer network with samba on Mandrake 9.1 and windows 98se ? The win > > computer was already set up for networking in a windows enviroment > > (maybe thats the problem?) I have checked the twiki and a few other > > places and am having a heck of a time getting this to work, I think im > > just too used to the winblows way LOL > > TIA > > Ok i think i have foung the problem, i can ping each computer by ip > address but not by hostname. I am sure i have set the workgroup name > the same on both computers. Any ideas ? The win98 computer has > netbuei, ipx/spx with netbios support, client for microsoft networks, > tcp/ip for the internet conection and file and printer sharing. I have > tryed webmin and the samba drakwizzard and done all this without > firewalls running but still seem to be having a problem, i have also > googled and checked out the site mentiond in this thread. > Any help apreaciated. I did send my smb.conf in an earlyer post to this > thread. > > Regards, > Dan Gordon Dan, have you set up a user password on the 98 system? So here is the official guide: http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/ see the section on setting up the windows 98 comp cause it may be a bit different than you are used to. Password is important. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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