Re: [Samba] Samba / Vista Problem

2008-04-15 Thread John Drescher
> >Can you do it via IP address? ( \\10.10.2.20 style?) > > Yes! Holy crap! I've been bashing my head against this for ages! > So... how do I fix my config to let this thing take a non-numeric IP? > Thanks! > Fix your network browsing issue. By properly installing wins and/or a dns server an

Re: [Samba] Samba / Vista Problem

2008-04-15 Thread William O'Higgins Witteman
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 03:08:51PM -0400, Wes Deviers wrote: >On Tue 8 Apr 2008 1:51:27 pm William Witteman wrote: >> I have a problem - I am trying to set up shared folders on a Debian etch >> machine, and then access them from a bunch of Vista Business machines. >> I set up a very basic smb.conf

[Samba] Samba / Vista Problem

2008-04-08 Thread William Witteman
I have a problem - I am trying to set up shared folders on a Debian etch machine, and then access them from a bunch of Vista Business machines. I set up a very basic smb.conf, and when I request the hostname of the Linux machine, I am prompted for a username and password. I enter them, and I see t