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Originally posted by wild_jester / BOB:
i am just now getting around to installing and setting up samba in my house. I am useing Red Hat 8.0 and a windows XP home computer. Right now i have it so the Xp computer can see the samba server but it cannot connect to it. I think it is b/c i do not have a login name for it but i do not know how to make one. Also how would i go about seeing what the XP computer is sharing in linux?
to have windows view linux samba shares...
make a user, or use an already made user... just have something non-root.
as root:
smbpasswd -a <username>
it'll ask for a password, give it one.
smbpasswd -a root
give your root password
chkconfig swat on
open a browser from the server and go to
http://localhost:901make a share and set the owner to the non-root and change the read only and whatever you want.
save
in shell:
/etc/init.d/smb restart
to view windows from linux...
open konqueror and go to smb://servername/share or smb://servername