Good way to debug is to first do a

smbclient -L 192.168.1.100

That will give you a list of shares on the host.  If that doesn't return 
anything, you probably forgot to restart your daemon or are having other 
networking issues.

James

Anthony Abby wrote:
> I'm having trouble connecting to a share I created on my Redhat 7.3 box,
> from my Windows XP workstation.  I had set it up earlier on a FreeBSD
> 4.6 server and was able to connect to it from a Windows 2000
> workstation, but can not seem to get it right here at home.
> 
> Here's my smb.conf file.....
> 
> # Samba config file created using SWAT
> # from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1)
> # Date: 2002/09/20 19:25:46
> 
> # Global parameters
> [global]
>       workgroup = APLUSDATA
>       netbios name = LAPTOP
>       server string = laptop
>       security = SHARE
>       encrypt passwords = Yes
>       name resolve order = host bcast
>       local master = No
>       lock dir = /tmp/samba
>       guest account = anthony
> 
> [share]
>       comment = Samba Share
>       path = /share
>       read only = No
>       guest ok = Yes
> 
> 
> I created a share in the root directory... /share, which right now is
> set to 0777.
> 
> When I try to connect via //laptop/share or //192.168.1.100/share I get
> "The network path was not found".  Checked the pertinent log files, but
> found nothing relevant there.  Could someone point me in the right
> direction?  Thanks for any help.
> 
> Anthony
> 

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