Gavin, Mandrake typically includes Webmin as a standard piece of their installation software. Webmin makes bringing up Samba INCREDIBLY easy and simple to do. Read up a little on Webmin at www.webmin.com and give it a go. Using Webmin should help you get Samba up and running without an issue.
However, if you feel that you have Samba up and running fine there is something that you can do to test it while directly on the server. Open up a terminal window. Make sure you are logged in with a user account that has been configured in Samba to have access to the shares. (ie., with an entry in the smbpasswd file.) At the prompt type in "smbclient -L localhost" This will provide you with some limited information about the server, after you type in your password for accessing the server. I have a feeling that you might be missing one or more pieces in your smb.conf file and perhaps also the user accounts in the smbpasswd file. Could you copy and paste your smb.conf file into an E-mail and also explain what you did to setup the user accounts for Samba use? With that information, most everyone here should be able to assist you. Regards, Robert Adkins II IT Manager/Buyer Impel Industries, Inc. Ph. 586-254-5800 Fx. 586-254-5804 -----Original Message----- From: Gavin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 3:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Robert Adkins Subject: [Samba] lost and confused Dear List, I'm BRAND NEW to samba but I have RTFM, checked the samba for dummies book and a host of other texted docs and I'm still lost. Is there a site the can explain setting up samba without all the bla bla bla.. I have a school in japan and I have samba running on my Mandrake linux 8.2 prosuite box. I want my other boxes (linux and windows) to 1. use the printer and 2. students can access their folders on the server. at the moment, none of my boxes can access the server files or printer, the windows boxes do not show a connection to the server on the network.. My server box also doubles as my firewall. I did some firewall checking and found out that ports 136 and 139 are stealthed to the internet, could this also be a problem.. (server is also blocking the win connects) if more information is need please let me know a.s.a.p! TIA Gavin -- Gavin c/o GES Fukushimaken, Fukushima City Nankodai 2-34-1 Japan 960-8143 Phone: 0245-22-3264 Fax. 0245-21-6220 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba