Julian; You might want to look into getting swat working, and use that to configure samba. It deffinately shortens the configuration time. Samba can be a bear. There has been a lot of mail about it lately, check the archives as well.
Ric PS: Glad to hear you got it installed & running! Ya just gotta watch those prompts & options. If ya miss the wrong one, <pfft!> yer toast. :) Julian Opificius wrote: > Hi Ric, > >> PS: Julian; You're good sport. You'll do OK with this stuff! :) > > > Cheers Ric - you too :-) > > b.t.w. In the past hour or so I went back and reinstalled Mandrake 8.1. > I was a lot more studious of options, and managed to get the installer > accept the partitions I'd created in System Commander (a simple /boot, > /, /swap setup for now) and things went OK. > My just-updated System Commander 7 saw the install (mind you, I was > previously at SC2000, which didn't). > Only problem was that my CD-ROM drive refused to see my 2ns and 3rd CDs. > I burned 'em myself, and Windows see's them. I think I've seen some > mention of this before on the list, that sometimes the faster readers > are a bit fussy of home-brew CD-Rs. > > Anyway, I'm now trying to get Samba to work. A Linux share I created was > showing upon the Linux box for a while, but then it all went away. > I'm really thinking it's Windows, because when I rebooted my RedHat > install to cross-check, the shares from that install aren't working > either! All I get when I try to access the Linux box in the browser is > an invitation to put in a password for the IPC$ share! > > I'll keep poking at it ;-) > > j. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/
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