Buck, Your "fun" is just beginning. Have you set up the smb.conf file? Mygroup is the default workgroup name in smb.conf. Lots of work to set up the file, but the default gives you good information on what each section is for. This set up will include the netbios name for your samba file server, location of shared folders as well as access to them. Then, you need to set samba users and passwords withing samba. See man smbpasswd. Then, you need to set your server for no firewall, or stop IPCHAINS and IPTABLES. I suggest you get a basic book on samba --- it will be invaluable. Tom Winfield -----Original Message----- From: psyche-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:psyche-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Buck Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 7:46 PM To: psyche-list@redhat.com Subject: Setting up a file server I am trying to setup Linux as a file server for a home network called "wildlife". Deer is my HP 9900 running Windows XP PRO and Tiger is an HP 6545 running Windows XP Pro. Both of these computers are networked in the workgroup called "Wildlife". My third computer is a Compaq Presario 5000 running Red Hat Linux 8.0, but I didn't have opportunity to give it a workgroup or name. I would like to call it "Penguin" and put it on wildlife too, but I haven't figured that one out yet. I installed Linux as a server on the Compaq and had it install Gnome, Networking and System Management at the same time. When I boot the Compaq it comes up to the Gnome desktop. I found services and started SMB which now loads every time I boot the computer. When I look at Microsoft Windows Network in Deer, it shows two workgroups -- wildlife and Mygroup. When I look at wildlife, I get Deer and Tiger. But when I look at Mygroup, it takes a long time to tell me "Mygroup is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to see if you have access permissions. The network path was not found." I created a folder under /home/buck called shared and placed a file in it. I set all the sharing properties to Read Write and Execute. I still get the same message when I try to access it. I looked for a way to change the password for "buck", the user name I use to sign onto deer to see if that would allow me to have access to Penguin, but I can't see a way to do that in Gnome and I don't have access to the command line. Thank you all again for your help. Sincerely, Buck -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
