From this SuSE box I can ping the IP address of all systems on the LAN. I can also ping the IP address of this SuSE box but I cannot ping its name noe see it in the Network Neighbourhood of any windows system. I've not tried
Thanks Brian for your useful reply; unfortunately I still have problems. Which version of SUSE are you using? 8 Personal, I have 7.3 professional and several win boxes running in the office all of which are networked and have shared resources. Firstly, are you sure you have installed Samba (including smbclient?). Do rpm -qa | grep samba to find out. Reports samba-client-2.2.3a-64 Second, is the smbfs module loaded. Find out by doing lsmod smbfs was not loaded If it is not, (as root) do modprobe smbfs to load it. now loaded, lsmod reports smbfs loaded but unused I think you need to add a line to /etc/init.d/boot.local to do this automatically at boot, but others here will be more knowledgeable on this. I've ticked every box in YaST system settings Thirdly, make smbmnt and smbumount suid root, so that ordinary users can use them. As root, do chmod 4755 /usr/bin/smbmnt This reports "too few arguments" chmod 4755 /usr/bin/smbumount This reports "too few arguments" Fourthly, ensure that there are shared resources on the Windows (I am assuming 98) machines. As mentinoed above I have several networked systems (NT4 Server, Win98 & Win2K workstations, a Win98 notebook, and a SuSE 7.3) to which this same system is connected and all share files and printers. Fifthly, try pinging from each computer to all others. the SuSE 7.3 system. I edited samba.conf to make all systems use the same workgoup name. I've not installed LinNeighbourhood as yet as I think I need to be able to see this box from the win boxes before I try accessing the shared resources of the win boxes. Regards Keith Jacobs