Kevin - Thanks so much for your attentiveness; with your suggestion my window boxes can see the Linux server and visa versa. The Linux box can mount and access the shared directories from all the Window machines, But there is still one glitch and I can't seem to resolve using the "Samba documentation". It is : While the Samba file and Print server shows up in all the Mnet workgroups on each of the windows boxes, the directories (named "Book" and "Photos" in the new smb.conf shown below). Are you aware of an easy fix for that. Much appreciation in advance.
Jon [global] netbios name = Mercury1 server string = Samba file and print server workgroup = MNET security = user hosts allow = 127. 192.77.0. interfaces = 127.0.0.1/8 192.168.77.0/24 bind interfaces only = yes remote announce = 192.168.77.255 remote browse sync = 192.168.77.255 printcap name = cups load printers = yes cups options = raw printing = cups guest account = smbguest log file = /var/log/samba/samba.log max log size = 1000 null passwords = no username level = 6 password level = 6 encrypt passwords = yes unix password sync = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 local master = no domain master = no preferred master = no domain logons = no os level = 33 logon drive = m: logon home = \\%L\homes\%u logon path = \\%L\profiles\%u logon script = %G.bat time server = no name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast wins support = yes wins proxy = no dns proxy = no preserve case = yes short preserve case = yes client use spnego = no client signing = no client schannel = no server signing = no server schannel = no nt pipe support = yes nt status support = yes allow trusted domains = no obey pam restrictions = yes enable spoolss = yes client plaintext auth = no disable netbios = no follow symlinks = no update encrypted = yes pam password change = no passwd chat timeout = 120 hostname lookups = no username map = /etc/samba/smbusers smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd '%u' passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *ReType*new*password* %n\n *passwd*changed*\n add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -c 'Samba User Account' -s /dev/null '%u' add user to group script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -c 'Samba User Account' -s /dev/null -g '%g' '%u' add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd '%g' delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel '%u' delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/userdel '%u' '%g' delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel '%g' add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g sambamachines -c 'Samba Machine Account' -s /dev/null -M '%u' machine password timeout = 120 idmap uid = 10000-20000 idmap gid = 10000-20000 template shell = /bin/bash winbind use default domain = yes winbind separator = @ winbind cache time = 360 winbind trusted domains only = yes winbind nested groups = no winbind nss info = no winbind refresh tickets = no winbind offline logon = no [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /home read only = no available = yes browseable = yes writable = yes guest ok = no public = no printable = no share modes = no locking = no [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /home/netlogon read only = no available = yes browseable = yes writable = no guest ok = no public = no printable = no share modes = no locking = no [profiles] comment = User Profiles path = /var/samba/profiles read only = no available = yes browseable = no writable = yes guest ok = no public = no printable = no locking = no create mode = 0600 directory mask = 0700 [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = yes writable = no guest ok = no public = no printable = yes share modes = no locking = no [pdf-documents] path = /home/pdf-documents comment = Converted PDF Documents available = yes browseable = yes writeable = yes guest ok = yes [pdf-printer] path = /tmp comment = PDF Printer Service printable = yes guest ok = yes use client driver = yes printing = bsd print command = /usr/bin/gadmin-samba-pdf %s %u lpq command = lprm command = [Book] path = /media/FreeAgent/Drive/Book comment = Book Chapters valid users = jon admin users = jon read only = no available = yes browseable = yes writable = yes guest ok = no public = no printable = no share modes = no locking = no [Photos] path = /media/FreeAgent/Drive/Photos comment = All Photos valid users = jon admin users = jon read only = no available = yes browseable = yes writable = yes guest ok = no public = no printable = no share modes = no locking = no Thanks for including your whole smb.conf and IP address configuration - that helped! I notice that your global hosts allow statement (and several others) only allows for a subnet of 192.168.0, but the IP addresses you list below is in a different subnet. Basically, you are telling Samba "reject everything from the 192.168.77 subnet". -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Window-can%27t-see-Linux-share-tp26555010p26594248.html Sent from the Samba - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba