From pbleser@prov-liege.be Thu Mar 12 23:03:19 1998
From: pbleser@prov-liege.be
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Elementary samba and ftp questions
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 00:03:19 +0100
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In-Reply-To: <[S.u.S.E. Linux] Elementary samba and ftp questions>
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>
>Hello,
>After seeing all the recent posts on samba, I decided
>to try an hook my old 486 with win95, up to my linux
>box.
>
>Everything seems to work except for a few unexpected
>things. I'm used to the peer-to-peer win95 style
>of networking where you can see evrything on both computers.
>
>I'm connected via ethernet cards, with TCP/IP
>          linux =3D 192.168.0.1
>          win95 =3D 192.168.0.2
>
>Question 1:
>I can see my linux home directory in Win95's Network Neighborhood,
>that is expected, but I can't seem to see my win95 c: drive
>from the linux machine. Is this samba server only a one way street? =20
>

No, but you have to setup the shares...
You can see your home because it's in the default configuration file:
take a look at /etc/smb.conf
and:
man smb.conf

>Question 2:
>If I fire up Netscape on the win95 machine, I can get my
>apache web page with   <A HREF=3D"http://192.168.0.1"><A HREF=3D"http://192.=
168.0.1</A">http://192.168.0.1</A</A>>
>
>but I can't get to my ftp directory in /usr/local/ftp
>with               <A HREF=3D"ftp://192.168.0.1"><A HREF=3D"ftp://192.168.0.=
1</A">ftp://192.168.0.1</A</A>>
>I get no connection. Why?
>
>Also if I <A HREF=3D"ftp://localhost"><A HREF=3D"ftp://localhost</A">ftp://l=
ocalhost</A</A>> on the linux machine, I'm
>accepted as anonymous user, but am dumped into "/"
>with no file access.
>
>How do I get ftp access into /usr/local/ftp?
>
>I checked Yast under user ftp, and the home directory
>is shown as /usr/local/ftp. Why do I get sent to a
>useless "/".
>
>I've heard this stuff is supposed to be "easy as pie",
>but I'm lucky I got this far. :-)
>
>zentara
>
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