At 06:46 PM 6/16/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Patrick Emonts wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> About a month ago I upgraded my SuSE 6.0 (2.0.36) to kernel 2.2.7
>> Yesterday I installed samba and ran into a big problem. Neither Win
>> NT4 nor Win95 could see the linux box in their network. Ping & telnet
>> worked fine. I changed delted the /etc/smb.conf file and replaced it
>> with a very basic one (workgroup and home directories). Now both Win
>> clients can connect to samba using "NET USE \\linuxbox\service" or
>> search for it and find it, connect to remote drives, but the linux
>> server does not show up in the network neighborhood. Suggestions are
>> welcome :-)
>>
>> It basically works but it lacks ease of use.
>
>I believe the Linux box will have to announce itself to visible in
>Network Neighborhood. Unfortunately I don't have a copy of Samba at
>home, so I'm cc'ing myself at work to remind me to lookup my settings
>(which work fine).
>
Hi Dave:
Take a look at man export. You have to set this file (/etc/export) up to
broadcast to the hosts you put in the file. I beleive this only allows
the winxx to 'see' the machine, not access it which has to be set up in
/etc/smb.conf. Someone correct me if this is wrong.
Tom
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