Thansk for the tip, Derek. Hadn't thought of that. Love this list.
Nothing at all wrong with Linux. Lee 11/25/01 8:29:46 AM, Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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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