Stupid question, though i have noticed that winXP sometimes takes a while to display what's available... i've noticed this even when networking two xp machines together.
Cheers, Jasper
On 14/12/2003, at 11:17 PM, Tom Massey wrote:
Hi again,
Thanks for the suggestions.
I spent today working on it.
Internet sharing was easy, basic iptables setup. I may get squid involved later.
The Mac/Netatalk side of things was a snap, took 10 minutes to setup a directory on the Linux machine that was shared to the Macs via Netatalk, showed up nicely in the chooser.
Then I spent several hours trying to get WinXP Pro to see Samba shares.
WinXP now has the distinction of being the only OS that has ever
caused me to seriously consider physical violence towards a computer.
I tried everything Google pointed me at, a variety of smb.conf files
down to the most basic three lines in a [Global] section, played with
the WinXP registry, disabled the builtin firewall stuff, sacrificed a
goat. Nothing I did seemed to help. WinXP couldn't see the Samba share.
Google told me that WinXP was not known for it's ability to talk to
Samba, but it did seem at least possible. Does anybody know of some
decent docs that show how to connect WinXP to a Samba server? Nothing
I could find on Google worked. All I need is to have two directories
visible to WinXP - one of these also shared to the Macs via Netatalk. My
understanding is that this can be done by putting them in the same
workgroup, without the need to use domains, set up a PDC. I'd prefer
to do it with Samba rather than a web based solution such as phpgroupware.
Just seems neater - there's a lot of stuff in phpgroupware that isn't
needed here. I've got a Win98 CD somewhere around, I might get rid of
XP. I seem to remember that 98 was quite easy to setup with Samba.
Haven't really looked at printing yet. At the moment the printer is happy
to talk to the Macs via ethernet, and the WinXP machine via a parallel
connection. Not ideal, but it'll do for now while I try and get the
file sharing working.
Tom -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
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