Re: [Samba] Can XP Home really Samba ?

2005-03-16 Thread Venkata Avasarala
Hi, I guess XP Home can Samba if McAfee allows it. I was able to access the Samba shares after I completly removed the McAfee firewall. Exiting the firewall and stopping the services proved to be of no use and caused me endless grief. I reluctantly gave it a shot since you expect the firewall t

Re: [Samba] Can XP Home really Samba ?

2005-03-15 Thread Venkata Avasarala
Hi, To get around the probelm of Firewall, I disabled firewall on the WLAN interface and stopped the firewall service. I also stopped the McAfee firewall service. On a related issue, I am using ethereal to capture packets. It shows packets from the Linux box. I want to know whether the packets

Re: [Samba] Can XP Home really Samba ?

2005-03-15 Thread Rainer Bendig aka Ny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Moin Moin Venkata Avasarala, *, Venkata Avasarala wrote on Mar 15, 2005 at 09:41AM -0500: > 2)Since I know the IP address of the Samba server doing a net use with > the IP address like net use b: \\192.168.0.4\Apache results in a > System error 1 on t

Re: [Samba] Can XP Home really Samba ?

2005-03-15 Thread Venkata Avasarala
Hi, Do I need a WINS server in a Workgroup ? I was going through the Samba Reference and it says that the same Samba installation cannot funtion as a WINS server. However, if XP home can work as a client and WINS server I will try it today . Moreoevr, I am giving the IP address of the server on

Re: [Samba] Can XP Home really Samba ?

2005-03-15 Thread Prakash Velayutham
On Mar 15, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Venkata Avasarala wrote: Hi, I know that XP Home edition is supposed to work with Samba. However, my experiences over the past 2 weeks have left me with a real doubt. All I want is a simple share from my Linux box to the XP Home machine with no password. I have set

[Samba] Can XP Home really Samba ?

2005-03-15 Thread Venkata Avasarala
Hi, I know that XP Home edition is supposed to work with Samba. However, my experiences over the past 2 weeks have left me with a real doubt. All I want is a simple share from my Linux box to the XP Home machine with no password. I have set guest ok = yes, enabled cleartext password in both Sa