On Sunday 25 November 2001 18:46, you wrote: > Thanks Colin and All > > I found an excellant tutorial and am now up and running Samba > after a mere 40 hrs of frustration. Not bad for a hobby! > > Lots of self-inflicted problems, as usual. The problem with such a > flexible system is there is little to protect me from my own ignorance. > > At one point I trashed part of smb.conf and spent hrs flopping around. > > All great fun. > > Hmmmm...........What's next?
What you should do now lee is visit http://scan.sygatetech.com/ and do a security scan of your machine to make sure you are not broadcasting your samba shares over the internet. It is all too easy to do! ;-) Derek > > ttfn > > Lee > > 11/25/01 2:35:25 AM, Colin Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hello D., > > > >Sunday, November 25, 2001, 5:16:07 AM, you wrote: > > > >DLW> Hi list, > > > >DLW> I have a lonely ML8.1 box in a dhcp network (almost) with 3 family > > Windows98 boxes. > > > >DLW> I have configured Samba through SWAT but probably for a direct > > connection DLW> to another box. > > > >DLW> I can ping all from all. > > > > > >sounds like the same setup I have at home. > >have you tried the tess in 'diagnosis.txt' (comes with samba I think) > >If you'd like to send me your smb.conf I'll have a look at it. > >btw, are you running a firewall? > > > >================================================================ > >Colin Jenkins > >ICQ: 650611 registered linux user 223862 > >WEILER'S LAW: Nothing is impossible for the man who does not have to do it > > himself. ================================================================
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