Hey All, I'm trying to wrestle this SAMBA thing and while I'm making some progress I am not wholly successful. I will outline what I have observed as being successful and what I would like to achieve. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I've got my little home network behind a gateway. They belong to workgroup MYWORKGROUP (fictitious), each machine has a lowercase name consisting of one word (the name of the primary user), each machine has at least one read-only share set up. The Winbloze machines can see each other fine and can access each other's shares just fine. I have successfully gotten my Linux Laptop to show up on the Winbloze Network Neighborhood but when I try to access it I get prompted for a password that I am unsuccessfully entering. I am trying to use my Linux laptop to see the other (Winbloze) machines on the network. I appear to have SAMBA set up and installed correctly. I have edited my smb.conf file but I believe that I am missing something here. I would like to be able to see the shares of the other machines from the Linux Laptop. I would like the other machines to be able to see the shares on the Linux Laptop. Is there any way of setting this up so that I don't have to create user accounts for each Winbloze machine? I'm not sure how to say this... can each incoming machine access the same space (user account?) on the Linux Laptop. This is basically how each winbloze machine works and it would save me to trouble of setting up accounts. I am also using LinNeighborhood and it appears to get the other machines on the network but cannot see their shares. I would really like to get this working. I have some files to transfer and some of them are rather large. Ultimately I believe this endeavor could be useful. Thus far I have avoided SWAT for a few reasons. The most prominent is that I want to see what I am doing at the configuration level. Thanks in advance. Jarrod
