Sorry that I sent this to your address, instead of the list - I forgot to change the 'Reply to' address.
Derek, I have been thinking hard and reading all I can, and I wonder if the problems are a lot deeper rooted. For instance: What I'm trying to achieve is that the filesharing and ICS should be transparent to the kids - they shouldn't need to know which OS I'm running. Currently, we run a MS peer-to-peer network, with my W2K box acting as gateway. I have read that it is notoriously difficult to set up Samba if NETBUI is installed (which it is on the W98 m/cs), and one should get rid of it if at all possible. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be possible, as without it the W2K machines and the W98 machines cannot see each other. TCP/IP is on all m/cs, and is properly set up, as the W98 m/cs connect to the Internet from my W2K m/c over TCP/IP. I wonder, too about m/c names. Under the peer-to-peer setup, no name server is required. I don't see how a hosts list can be set up when two m/cs have static IP addresses and the other two have dynamic (provided by my m/c). We haven't used either DNS or WINS. This sets me to thinking about host names on Mdk - I haven't set this up, I think, and I guess I need it? How can Samba recognise and authenticate a m/c without DNS? And how could I set up DNS with m/cs that don't have a static IP address? I have a feeling that there are lots of things like this that I will have to set up. I forgot that this will not be peer-to-peer, but in fact I will be using this m/c as a server - and I didn't specify that at installation. Yet I was offered the ICS option? Just thinking aloud, but would welcome your comments. Anne PS I just got your smb.conf file, and I'll check it out. Again, pinging is a problem, as I don't have a static address. I think this is possibly the root of the problem and I don't know what to do about it.
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