De Croes Francis enscribed thusly:
> Hi everyone over here,
> I'm a very new Linux user, so please do have some patience with me if this is a very
>dummy question.
> I installed RH5.1 on an older machine, and, thanks to you guys, it seems to work
>just fine now.
> Its what it has "done" to all the other machines thats making me wonder a little bit.
> The '95-'98 machines see the linuxmachine in a different workgroup, but at least I
>can see the machine from there.
> Different story on the NT server and NT worrkstations (all NT4SP3).
> They see the new workgroup (strangely called mygroup-sounds like a kind of default
>to me) but NOT the machine.
You probably have samba running. That's the SMB netbios server
for participating in windows networks. The configuration file should
be /etc/smb.conf.
> For the moment there is nothing shared on the Linuxbox (cause I didn't figure out
>yet how to - tips are welcome) and maybe thats the reason.
> Or is there a service I need to run, or maybe a different protocol to run ?
You're already running it and it started up without being properly
configured. This is my one major security bitch about every distribution
out there. They install services without the user knowing what he's
installing (the install everything button should be BANNED) and they run
service prior to them being configured properly.
> Any suggestion is more than welcome,
If you want to share services from your Linux box to your windows
boxes, you're started in the right direction. Read up on samba and then
edit /etc/smb.conf to get samba to behave the way you want it to. If you
DON'T want to be doing this, shut it down with "/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop"
(you should do this anyways until you configure it) and then remove
the startup links "rm -f /etc/rc.d/rc*.d/S*smb".
> Many, many thanks in advance,
> regards,
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> Francis De Croes
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> PS I do like all the story's some of you guys tell at the end of your messages...
Hmmm.... Oh. Signature file...
Regards,
Mike
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