@lynn: Don't feel obliged to answer. Topic is interesting for many of us, and we can chat long after original poster has no interest in it. On Sunday 12 April 2009 10:32:34 am Carlos E. R. wrote: ...
Indeed, if the YaST GUI is unable to configure the firewall for use with samba, it deserves a bugzilla. It should have a "wizard" for "Hey, I want samba" and be done - and work. I don't know if there is, I don't use the firewall GUI.
Talking about wizard, did you try to remove all entries from /etc/samba and
start Samba configuration module?
There is some kind of wizard, but IMHO, it is still for people that know what
they have to do. It leaves you with files in /etc/samba, but no users
defined, no hint to add users using
smbpasswd -a