I went through the difficulties of trying to set up Linux within an NT domain using SAMBA a while ago. One of the most useful tools I found was the SWAT tool, which lets you edit your Samba configuration files through a web browser (very nice for those of us who still remain nervous at an alien command line!). You can launch SWAT from within Netscape (or whatever browser you use) by typing the following in the URL address field: http://localhost:901/ (you may need to provide 'root' user details before it lets you into the config screen).
From my client workstations I map 2 shared drives permanently onto the server (which actually run software packages remotely - Office 2000, Dreamweaver, etc..). As other users have mentioned, you cannot browse these shares from Windows 'Network Neighbourhood', but the explicit mapping of the drives (or connecting from the 'run' option with a simple '\\servername' ) works fine, and the links are always there when needed.
Who knows, we could always treat this as a security setting, disallowing as it does renegade browsing of the servers resources! (I was actually taught this on a Microsoft course - that unrestricted browsing via Network Neighbourhood chews up bandwidth, and often lets people see/access what they shouldn't). Regards, Martin Dart Senior Computing Officer School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences Oxford Brookes University
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