Steve Logan wrote: > After lurking for some years now it's time to come out of the closet... > > I've just set up my first serious Linux machine, a PIII 500 running > SuSe Professional 9.1. Installation went OK and it's now up and > running ready for me to play around with Apache/Tomcat (which is why I > want it). > > Here's my question - > > I use WinXP for most of my development work and want an easy way of > copying files to and from the SuSe box. I've correctly set up Samba > client and server on the SuSe box, or at least I think I have. > > From the Suse box I can see my Win2003 network and copy files across. > So that direction works fine. > > From my XP box I enter the IP address of the Suse box in 'My Computer' > and I get back a list of things - 'groups', 'profiles', 'users' and > 'Printers and Faxes'. When I click on, say, users I'm asked to login. > Here's where my problem starts. I enter '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as the > 'User name' and enter my password (I have already set up an account on > the SuSe box called steve and I can login fine at the Suse machine) > but I'm not logged in. I've tried all sorts of permutations and > combinations for the user name but I'm stumped. > > I presume I'm doing something daft. The suse box is called > 'cactuslinux' and there is an account called 'steve'. > > Help!? > > Thanks > > Steve > Ah, you dont need to use the machine name when you login.
Also, as far as I know you need to add a samba user for the Windows box to authenticate against. Unfortunatly I cannot be more helpful than this - I haven't used samba in quite a while but i'm sure someone else will be able to help nps. Basically yes, your doing something daft but it's a common thing and one that actually stumped me for a while when I first started using samba :) _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish