On Monday 13 May 2002 7:23 am, Beastie wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed new 8.2 from Linux Format DVD. > > My machine is a Pentium II 350MHz that I would like to install as > Firewall/Router > DNS Server > SMB server (File Server for networked Windows machines) > Print Server. > > I used to have another machine running Windows 2000 Server that served the > above purposes, the problem was that the machine was constantly under > attack and in the end was defeated and became unusable. > > I hope that by installing Linux, I could get away with some of the problems > I was facing. > > After installing 8.2 I setup DNS and Firewall, these work fine. But not > Samba, I can see the Samba server when browse Network Neighbourhood only > when I click to open this server the error was "Network path not found". > > I tried to set system security to lower level, thinking that these might be > the problem but to no avail. > > What can I do now ?
Well first you made a good choice when you decided to switch to Linux :-) Two suggestions 1/ Are you trying to run Samba through the 'protected' interface on your Firewall? If so you need to poke a few holes in it for Samba. This article tells you how to do it on the command line http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=1467&lang=en If you install the InteractiveBastille pack you can get a little GUI to do the configuration for you. 2/ Did you configure any directories for Samba to share? An easy way to set up Samba is to use Webmin. Install webmin rpm and then in a browser on the local or a remote computer enter https://hostname_or_IP_address:10000 (Note https not http) Also Samba must know about the Windows username/passwords which are allowed to access directories. Again you can set this up with webmin. If you prefer a command line setup then just read the samba config file /etc/samba/smb.conf It contains lots of example configurations you can just uncomment. HTH derek
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