On Friday 21 May 2004 19:14, John wrote: > Hi again, and thanks to everyone who helped me with my last network > question. > > I suppose this one might be actually more of a Windows question than a > Linux question, but here goes. > > I have a home network of 2 PCs. One is running mandrake 10, the other > Win XP. > > Linux, bless it, has no problems finding all the shared files on the XP > machine. > Windows, curse it, doesn't seem able to see the Linux machine at all. > > On the Linux machine, I've installed samba and set some files as able to > be shared on the network, but I just can't get windows to see them. I'd > be really grateful if anyone can help me to sort this out. >
Open your firewall on the linux box to ports 137,138,139 on your local network. By default the shorewall firewall blocks all traffic from both the Internet, and the local network into the Linux box Also if you have configures samba to allow users to access their home directories on Linux, then you will need to run as root smbpasswd -a user_name where user_name is the name of a user that exits in both Windows and Linux. the password you give is the **Windows** password for that user. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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