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.
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?
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.
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