Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

["Brian W. Carver" <bwcarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think this SHOULD be necessary, but for me, I never got Windows 
to see (or access) the linux server via samba until I made the linux 
server a Wins server and added its internal ip address as a wins server 
in each windows client.  I don't even know what a wins server IS, so 
maybe something else I did fixed my problems, but it seemed to me that 
doing that coincided mysteriously with a solution.

Nick Selby wrote:
> Hi,
> Make sure you have samba and swat installed. Edit /etc/inetd.conf and 
> find the
>
> > line with "swat" on it and remove the # from the beginning of the 
> > line. Save
> > and run (as root) rcinetd restart
> >
> > Then point a browser to http://127.0.0.1:901 and set up some shares. 
> > After
> > that you should be able to see the linux box on the win2k machine
> >
> > Not having samba installed is more or less equivalent to not having 
> > activated
> > "file and printer sharing" on a windows box.
>
>
> AH.
>
> So i've done that, started swat, created the share, named "nick" allowed 
> hosts 192.168.10.102, set it to read only-no and guest okay=yes
>
> Sadly, Windows don't see it.
>
> (BTW, I tried to map the drive to
>
> \\192.168.10.4\nick )
>
> It's soooo close....
>
> > Anders

--
Brian