Re: [Dorset] Samba Help

2009-10-24 Thread Peter Merchant
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 17:49 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote: I've just configured an up-to-the-minute file share with XP and 8.04. The Ubuntu can easily see into the XP, but not vice versa. I think the problem is probably Zone Alarm. Zone Alarm is truly dreadful and I avoid it like the plague.

Re: [Dorset] Samba Help

2009-10-24 Thread Simon O'Riordan
Peter, are you trying to go from Linux to XP or XP to Linux? For the first you need XP file sharing turned on. For the second you might try disabling the linux firewall temporarily to see if that helps. If it does, you need to do two things using Firestarter; 1) Put in a rule for the IP address