I am guessing all your hosts are on the 192.168.0.x network?
This is a very simplistic smb.conf I have.
[global] workgroup = JRM map to guest = Bad User printcap name = cups logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile logon drive = P: logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile local master = No cups options = raw
[public] path = /localhome/jrm/public read only = No guest ok = Yes my smb.conf doesn't have a [public]
everyone is on 192.168.x.x not on e.g. majority of my peers are on 192.168.4.x or 192.168.5.x So, shall I change that? this is what my smb.conf shows # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2006/09/01 20:08:20 [global] workgroup = MSHOME netbios name = PUNEIT server string = puneit_singh map to guest = Bad User printcap name = cups add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody -s /bin/false %m$ logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile logon drive = P: logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile os level = 2 preferred master = no local master = no domain master = no hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 cups options = raw include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf usershare max shares = 100 security = domain restrict anonymous = no max protocol = NT ldap ssl = No server signing = Auto idmap gid = 10000-20000 idmap uid = 10000-20000 wins support = yes [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S, %D%w%S read only = No inherit acls = Yes browseable = No [shared] path = /home/puneit/Shared/ guest ok = yes read only = no case sensitive = no msdfs proxy = no guest account = ftp guest only = yes username = prometheus -- Puneit Singh 0091-9350832020