On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 18:50 -0800, Roman Toledo wrote: > I've been testing core 3 test 3 2.92 for a month now and never got > around to using the samba configuration app that is under the > menu > system settings > server settings > samba. > > this ystem is up2date as of 10/31/04. I used the above menu to load up > the > "services" app to make sure smb and windbind are running in level 3 , > 4, and 5 (not sure if level 4 should as I don't know much about that > level) > > I made sure my sons machine is running and made sure samba is running > on it, (suse 9.1) it can not see my machine and when I start konqueror > in my machine and type smb:// his machines name it comes back with it > can not find it. > > I also got a message when I clicked on local networks saying I needed > lisa, so I opened a terminal and started lisa, now I see a bunch of > local 127.x.x.x and see my box FED777 but do not see my son's. > > I'm not sure If I've done something to break it(probably), since I've > spent my time learnig to properly compile the kernel so I could then > compile the raid card driver's and read and write to it(ntfs was a > disappointment can't write to it) > > last I've done a lot of reading from the google pages and man samba and > have learned a lot even how to mount and dismount NTFS volumes in > Windows, something totally unknown to me until today ;) but have not > succeeded in fixing samba. I need to share my printer for the wife and > son's machine. > > all suggestions are deeply appreciated and my appologies for the long > and winding story ;) > can you manually mount it in a terminal? try smbmount //servername/sharename /mnt/onyourfedorabox username it should come back with a password to access the share. at least this will tell you if samba itself is working. hth -- =Guy 21:13:59 up 11:51, 2 users, load average: 3.63, 2.29, 2.05