On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 13:16 +0000, nad 9084 wrote: > After pulling out most of my hair, someone told me of this mailing list. He > suggested you may be able to help. Rather than describing my problem again > (it goes on for a while, sorry). Could one of you brain surgeons look at the > following link and try and shed some light. Thanks in advance: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=270866&perpage=15&pagenumber=1 > >
Just previewing, you probably can't ping the XP machine because SP2 firewall is on, try pinging from XP<-->XP For Samba to authenticate XP you must have encrypt passwords ON You also must enable smb password file and run smbpasswd -a username You have the Guest account commented out. It appears you should throw away that book and visit the samba website. Additionally you can run samba swat to learn a lot with moderate configuration help... http://localhost:901/ You need to make sure swat is installed. Larry Weldon -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
