Hello Heather, One thing I know about Windows XP is that if you have the Home version running on these computers, they do not support joining into domains and authentication, so if you are setting up your Mandrake machine with Samba, make sure you don't set it to be a PDC of a pseudo-windows domain. Job well done on getting this far. I'm still playing with Mandrake and Samba on my machine at work, and getting it to play nicely with our Windows 2000 domain.
Terry On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 12:29, Heather Reed wrote: > Hello again - my second question in 24 hours, having solved the sound card :-)) Hope >someone can help with this too! I've got the box up and running (Mandrake 8.0), and >connecting to the Internet via a router connected to my home LAN. The LAN consists of >mainly windows XP and 98 machines. I can ping the linux machine from the others and >vice versa. I have set up a Samba conf file using SWAT, but am getting 2 error >messages: > 1. Clicking on 'local network' in my home directory returns 'Cannot connect to host >'localhost' > 2. I tried netconf, and on trying to open the samba configuration entry there, I get >the error message 'cannot find etc/samba/smbconf' Not surprising, since my conf file >is simply etc/smb.conf Question is, where do I go next? Make 2 smb/conf files? > TIA > Heather
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