-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stojs Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] filesharing with windows (samba) Now I have set up a samba server but there are still some problems. When I click home directory I get a network icon in the left field. Under that is ftp archive, local network and web sites. I guess my windows machine should show up under local network. But what I get there is just "could not connect to host localhost". Am I looking in the wrong place or is it a configuration problem? --- You are using Konqueror to browse your network. In turn Konqueror relies upon three things being set up properly, 1) Samba itself 2) Lisa/Reslisa 3) You user logins in the K-Control panel Komba is easier to use. --- >From the windows side I can find the linux machine and read/write in the samba-public folder.The problem is that I can not write in samba-public folder from within linux. --- Samba "folders" are merely pointers to real Linux folders you have set up. It sounds like you have not set any up yet! --- How do I share another folder? --- By adding a new entry starting with [sharename] In /etc/samba/smb.conf. --- And is it possible to get read/write access to the samba-public folder? --- You already have access to everything in Linux. Samba does NOT have it's own folders hidden somewhere. Rather you can have a share called [public] which points to a directory somewhere within your Linux machine's hard drive. Where this is, is up to you to decide. -JMS
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