Hi Steve I'll try and help a bit. I have a Win box connected to a Lin box. For the win box you need to install NetBEUI, I assume that you know how to do that - it's a Microsoft protocol add in. Then in the (Control panel) Network properties for TCP/IP on the ethernet card, select the IP address tab, select the 'Specify an IP address' and add your address, which will be in the order of 192.168.0.4. You should keep the first two numbers as shown for the present, the last two you can alter. The mask should be 255.255.255.0 Under the identification tab put in a name for your machine, all lowercase will probably make it easier. Name the Workgroup, I use WORKGROUP. For access control I select the top button 'Share level access control' You need to check the bindings, and you would be best advised to look at Steve Gibson's page for that. Address is http://grc.com/su-bondage.htm (no its not that sort of bondage :) When you have sorted that out then ok everything and reboot. After rebooting, open a Dos box and try ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where the x's are the address of the Lin box. You should get 3 replies. If you succeed try Network Neighborhood, either direct or from explorer, it should find the name of the Lin box. Windows does not always find it, and a reboot may help. If it doesn't come up, the sort out the Lin box. On the Lin box you need to set up Samba, don't know if you have done that. Good luck Regards, David On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 01:16:37 +0100, scc wrote:
Hi again.
I'm nearly there but the sentence: 'Set the w98 box on user share mode if you are using the samba server as your domain authenticator. Add your username to the share's access list.' Is still beyond us.
I set up the DNS scripts (the ones with 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa and if you get a full stop wrong it doesn't work) on our Samba server. I think this must be our domain authenticator no? How do I set the w98 box on user share mode? How do I add my username to the share's access list?
Please don't give up on us. If you are ever in Alicante (Spain) I'll gladly pay for the beers!
Cheers, Steve.
Hi John. Hi everyone.
<snip> My username on the server is 'root' and my password is 'foobar'
My username on every client is 'steve' and my password on every client is 'foobar1' I want to be able to see the w98 box 'computer3.local', IP 192.168.0.3.
Computer3.local can browse the shares on the server and print via the
server
so I believe all is set up O.K.
Can't I just mount it on the server somewhere and browse it from there?
<snip>
Yes you can. Set the w98 box on user share mode if you are using the samba server as your domain authenticator. Add your username to the share's access list. Then mount the share with: mount -t smbfs -o username=steve,password=foobar1 //Computer3.local/sharename /mnt/comp3C
Of course the dir /mnt/comp3C must exist.
John