"Rodriguez Jimenez, Luis" wrote:
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> I have installed a mandrake 7.0 with a net card and i know that it
> works well because I can ping the rest of the computers (all of them
> are built in win NT and win 9X.). But I don�t know how to see them and
> their shared folders. I try to open the netscape but it shows me a
> message that I don�t understand well. By the other hand when I try to
> see the linux computer in a windows one only sometimes I find it
> making a "find PC" but when I go to open it I�m asked for a name and
> password but I�m never recogniced nor root nor nobody.
It's because you have to make your users recognized by samba with
smbpasswd -a username. (man smbpasswd)
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> I know that all those tthings are made by samba but I can�t find samba
> in my Linux... I dont�t know if I have to install it ( in that case
> plase tell me how to do) or where find it. I only know that if I type
> samba in a terminal I can start the services.... but I don�t know any
> more.
At least, that means that samba is installed. But if it isn't, just
mount your mandrake cd and install it with rpm -Uvh
To start your samba services nicely, type "/etc/rc.d/init.d/samba start"
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> Please help me to set up my Linux in a lan to share folders and to see
> my domain.
> Thanks a lot.
To set up your shares, you have to edit your /etc/smb.conf file. Find
more info in the man smb.conf and in the smb-HOWTO.
HTH
Flupke
