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Post your smb.conf file for starts and we can look at it and tell you
what's wrong.  also how do you want to share? A free share for all to
write to and delete? Read only? Or do you want it to map to the users
home directory? they're all pretty easy.  Easy to say since it took me
the better part of a week to figure it out.

Quote:>I have a simple network at home with a linux box and several win98se
>boxs.  I formatted the hd & installed rh7.1 from the distribution CDs.
>My problem is I can't seem to get samba to work...

>From my win98se box I can browse the network neighborhood and see my
>win98se box, the linux box, and whatever other win98se boxs that are
>turned on.  Now if I select the linux box's icon I get "computer or
>sharename could not be found".

>I have setup three shares that should be visible on the linux box, all
>three directories already exist.  I have setup a smbpasswd for myself.
>I have also searched the web and found some help for either win95 or NT,
>neither of which I am using.

>Also I saw something about a prog called swat... I downloaded the rpm
>from rpmfind but it refused to install without a bunch of other
>packages, some of which I can't find...

>Can some kind soul point me to a step by step setup web page/resource
>that is clear to understand?  I don't mind learning a little, but this
>shouldn't be a science project either.

>Thanks in advance

>Brad

I had the same problem, but found that I had the wrong DNS IP in all
the client machines, after I fixed that everything worked ok. If you
get an IPC$ log in, you need to creat a user on the linux box that is
equal to the login on the 98 machine, including network passwords. I
can post my smb.cfg also to compare.

-Steve

Quote:>I have a simple network at home with a linux box and several win98se
>boxs.  I formatted the hd & installed rh7.1 from the distribution CDs.
>My problem is I can't seem to get samba to work...

>From my win98se box I can browse the network neighborhood and see my
>win98se box, the linux box, and whatever other win98se boxs that are
>turned on.  Now if I select the linux box's icon I get "computer or
>sharename could not be found".

>I have setup three shares that should be visible on the linux box, all
>three directories already exist.  I have setup a smbpasswd for myself.
>I have also searched the web and found some help for either win95 or NT,
>neither of which I am using.

>Also I saw something about a prog called swat... I downloaded the rpm
>from rpmfind but it refused to install without a bunch of other
>packages, some of which I can't find...

>Can some kind soul point me to a step by step setup web page/resource
>that is clear to understand?  I don't mind learning a little, but this
>shouldn't be a science project either.

>Thanks in advance

>Brad

Brad,
Unfortunately I left all my notes and books at work so I'll have to
look at this on Monday.  I sent myself a note to remind me.  I'll get
back to you monday. from what I do see it does look correct from what
I remember.  Did you use smbpasswd to set your password on the linux
box? You will also may want to try setting your security to share
rather then user.  When I set mine up I opened everything up and then
slowly closed things down until it got as tight as I needed.
Cowtown

That's normal disk sharing operation.  You get the exact same file as is
on the other system.  It would be no different than copying that file to
a floppy and moving it that way.  If you want text conversion, use ftp.
Also, I recall some utilitie from a few years ago that handled the
conversion.  They had names like unix2dos and dos2unix, which would
convert a text file between the two formats.

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I don't think this is really quirk with Samba.  Windows likes to add
a carriage return and a linefeed for every newline.  There are many
ways to convert files (dos2unix, etc) but I think it's safe to assume
that Samba is preserving the content of the files it transfers.

-S