Thank you to all who helped me with this problem. I am now convinced the problem is not just something wrong in the smb.conf file, but must be more of a port deny issue or something.
Couple of questions: Do all XP computers (including XP home?) need the 'plain-password-hack' to talk to a Samba server? Remember XP Home is different than XP Pro, XP Home can not join a domain, more like Win95/98. I installed RedHat 8.0 with a "custom" setup and "medium" security, anyone know if that would cause this problem of not talking Netbios on the network? Where would I look for blocked ports, I would think /etc/services, but those entries look normal, don't have anything obvious they are blocked. Interesting I added the Samba server's IP/name to my hosts and lmhosts file on my XP Home computer, now I can see it, ping it by name (couldn't before), but I have lost all the other computers in my workgroup, I can still ping them by name, but they don't immediately showup in the workgroup...odd. For our purposes static IP's would be fine, just something to get it to work. I also added a account on the Samba server called "Mark", (already had one called "mark"), I'm guessing Windows would export my username as "Mark" with a capital "M", that's probably what it's setup as. Maybe that helped slightly also. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Mark Brodis [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
