Patrick Kirk wrote:

I have just installed Linux for the first time. The network is a tcp/ip Win95 setup. I can ping all others machines on the network by name except my Linux box. I can ping the linux box by ip address. I can also telnet in from the Win95 boxes by ip address. The linux box does not appear in the win95 network neighborhood. Obviously I can't use SAMBA shares until it does.

I don't know about Win95 (and don't really want to know) but on our NT/Linux/AIX/HP-UX Netwe needed to install a WINS Server to share the NetBIOS Names, remember that the NetBIOS Names used by NT and 95 are totally independend from DNS Names And you CAN use samba even if you haven't worked out the naming, the Linux Box may not be found automatically by its name but you can search for its IP address and get the shares this way, I think, but then again who knows what Win95 does. I'd recommend anyway to FORMAT C: and please all the machines with LINUX CU Mario Oschwald -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e