Samba - Shoul I be able to see my own shares?

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Samba - Shoul I be able to see my own shares?

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Hi,

I'm trying to set up samba so that I can share files on a LAN that includes windows xp machines.

I installed samba and used to KDE interface to share some directories but when I go to smb://WORKGROUP/ the only shares I see are the shares which other people have on windows machines.

I typed "/etc/rc.d/smb start" to start the fileserver. I looked in my smb.conf file and there are shares listed and the workroup is set as WORKGROUP. Do I need to do something else.

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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Since discovered the answer to my question is NO. You can't see your Samba shares from the PC doing the sharing.

At the moment though I've a problem. I can access my shares from another PC on the LAN at \\10.0.0.5 but not at \\chris. Where do I set it to be found at chris as opposed to 10.0.0.5?

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Post by feyd »

I'm guessing this other PC is a Windows machine? \\<name> is a service provided by NetBIOS, so you'd need to find a compatible service for your *nix..
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Ok thanks. Possibly something already in SuSE Control Panel for setting netbios names.
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Uhhh, Samba does the NetBIOS for you. You need to setup your samba config to setup your own machine. Samba can be used to serve "shares" to others, or Browse/Mount other's "shares." You need to do the first and setup your smb.conf to match your machine. If you have a short one, you can paste it here and I'll see what you are doing wrong.
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Thanks... saw what to do in smb.conf....

You just add netbios name = chris to the [global] part. Glad you pointed that out. All works fine now. (except i can't get my lexmark z600 printer to share :-( - other pc has the drivers by when connecting they get "access denied"). Not a major problem though. Thanks again :-)
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