Are you able to open the share via the IP of the linux machine? Regards, Akshay
----- Original Message ----- From: LinuxLingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 2:01 am Subject: [ilugd] samba masala dosa > argh! > > have successfully configured samba server such that in the network > neighbourhood of a win98 pc, i can finally see the hostname of the > sambapc. > > double-click: and it says //[hostname] is not accessible. the > specifiedcomputer did not receive your request. try again later. > > [hostname] contains the netbios name as specified in smb.conf of the > linux pc. > > 1) username and passwd added to linux box. > 2) username and passwd passed on to smbpasswd > 3) encrypted password on in samba. > 4) win98 windows logon (right after boot) uses *same* username and > passwd. for good measure, the 'identification' of the pc is also the > same username. > 5) the work group is identical for both pcs. > 6) iptables ipchains, default firewalls (lokkit, network security, > etc)are all disabled. > 7) the linux samba server does show up in the network neighbourhood, > which means they can see each other. > 8) once, using smbclient, did successfully log on to the win98 pc and > mount its shared folders to the linux pc. > 9) googled extensively. > 10) the shares under samba are set up correctly. (i.e., there is a > sub-directory all ready to be shared with the win box). > > what's going on? > > ?? > LL > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
