Samba anyone?

[Chris Schreiber]

I am trying (key word: trying) to setup Samba on my server so I can access shares from my Windows 2000 client here at home. I have the smbd/nmbd processes running fine on the server, and can connect locally using smbclient. However, when I try using "net view \\servername", it responds (after a long pause) with "System error 53 has occurred. The network path was not found.", even though I can ping servername from here. Any pointers for a Samba newbie? :)

[Dave#]

Stupid questions:


1) It's an IP network? If not then it needs to be :)

2) what happens when you connect to \\192.168.0.1 (or whatever the Ip address is.

3) Your not running IP tables or TCP wrappers on the server? Ie is it a firewall/access issue?

Is anything logged when you try and connect?


Edit: Do you need netbios enabled also?

[firewire]

First of all: you don't need samba services to mount export shares from another box. You'll only need it it EXPORT from linux to windows.

What you DO need is smbfs (smb file system), and then mount the share with

smbmount //server/share /mountpoint/on/local/linux/dist

Linux User and Widnows user must both exist and have the same pw, otherwise, you have to add a Parameter for user and pw. See "man smbmount".

If any more questions, just post :)