-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I was only able to figure out Samba after reading info from these two sites, perhaps they'll help you: Samba Server Step By Step Guide http://plug.phoenix.az.us/step-by-step/samba/toc.html Chapter 10.3 on Samba of O'Reilly's Learning Debian GNU/Linux http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/ch10_03.html Keith Jacobs wrote: | 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. | |>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 | 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 - -- Brian Support EFF! http://www.eff.org/ They're defending YOUR rights online. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE879/KATQSaAIcWwsRAvAtAJ90egUCvbagerO99ID7qWJKBDmgBwCgj/Y3 L5Baqna6SGmi0Soeo7deYwA= =8y6P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----