I thought I sent this message this morning, but it doesn't seem to have shown up. I have a home network with two Windows XP systems and one Mandrake 10.0. (Wrong proportions, I know.) The Mandrake system is new, and I'm trying to figure out how I can get file sharing to work across systems. I can't seem to see a WinXP system from Mandrake, or vice versa. A couple of observations:
1) Samba doesn't seem to start automatically on boot. I have to start it by hand. Can I make it start automatically? 2) Likewise for ftp. 3) My HOST env var is set to my system, but when I look at the DHCP client table on my router, there's no name for the Mandrake box. (The WinXP boxes are named correctly.) So this suggests the Mandrake box is not declaring its name correctly somehow. Any clues on that? 4) I inadvertently specified an incorrect domain name when I installed the system. I think I've cleared that in the network settings, but I'm not sure. Somehow, the two WinXP machines are in different workgroups, and there's no workgroup for the Mandrake box. Any comments, suggestions, or even good jokes would be appreciated. Bad jokes I can supply myself. Thanks! -pd
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