On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Carmine Rosa wrote: > > Hello, > > I am quite new to Linux and SAMBA but find them really interesting.
That's great Carmine. > I have a small W2K network and I have installed Mandrake 9 and SAMBA on > a spare machine to act as a file server. I can PING the W2K DC and the > Linux machine but do not see the file share through Network > Neighbourhood. It was there before but after a big crash and a reinstall > from scratch it is no longer there. what crashed - the win2k box or the linux box? I presume the win2k box but ... > Previously it all went in without me > doing much. I had not given it any users at that stage and I could not > use the share but I could see it. This time however it is not visible at > all. Could someone point me in the right direction. I would be very > grateful for any information. you haven't described how you configured (or reconfigured) the SAMBA share. You should set the workgroup to be the same as your w2k domain/workgroup and then the server and fileshare should be visible (if you gave 'everyone' access anyway). -=-=-==-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Graeme Robinson - Graenet consulting www.graenet.com - internet solutions -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==---=-=--=-=-= -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
