-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of david chong Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:19 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: samba question > Have you ever tried going through the Samba Howto or the Using Samba > book material that comes free with samba in html format? > > If you want help, then you need to tell us also what you have > done...why should we try to walk you through each and every step? > Hi All, Thanks for all your suggestions. No, I don't mean to ask you walking me step by step. Actually I am following the "Samba 3 By Example" and stuck at the very first example. I copied the whole smb.conf but cannot connect to my box. I can ping to it and ssh to it though. I notice in the example running "smbclient -L localhost -U%" will output the line below: ADMIN$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.20) but from my C5.1, I don't have this line, other lines are the same, can anyone explain this line, wondering if this is where the problem lies. ------------------------------ Can you ping the Samba Server by the Server name? "root@localhost]ping yourservernamehere" All your line means, is that is the administrative share "\\servername\admin$". OK, if you did the example in the from "Samba 3 by Example", then you will be able to connect via anonimously to the samba server from the Windows machine. That is providing that you have the correct file permissions on the Samba Server in question. For that you will use the commands "chmod & chown". Full access is needed to the folder that is shared in samba using that example. When using chown and chmod be sure to use the "-R Option", to make the changes apply recursively to the shared folder. I honestly know that if your indeed using that example it will work if followed step by step. Have a Blast :-D!, JohnStanley _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos