Ha Thai Duong wrote:
Hi I am a new bee to Linux in general. Please accept my apologies if the question is not appropriate.
I have a LAN with 2 computers: One is CentOS and one is Windows XP. I am trying to transfer file between 2 computers using LAN. Can you please tell me how to do it?
I have tried Samba from the Applications menu. Add a directory in there. Set it to Read only and Allow access to everyone. I couldn't see the CentOS from Windows computer.
I have tried the Network Servers. There is Windows Network there. When i click to see inside that, there is nothing.
I tried to see the all the services are running. The winbind status is winbindd dead but subsys locked.
Thanks a lot for your help. I do appreciate that. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
"service smb status" will tell you if the services (smbd, nmbd) are running but ...
Maybe your firewall is active and blocking your requests;
From a root prompt type # service iptables status
If the response is "Firewall is stopped" then this is not the problem - however if you get a list of the firewall entries, then try # service iptables status|egrep "445|137|138|139" You should see 4 or so entries listed for the various services related to samba sharing.
If you see none, you need to either ; A. stop the firewall (not recommended, but you may want to stop it to confirm that the firewall is the issue) using # service iptables stop (restart it with # service iptables start) B. config the firewall to allow these ports (recommended solution)
try /usr/sbin/s
set Security Level to "Enabled", Customize, under "Other ports" type "445:tcp 137:udp 138:udp 139:tcp"
This should allow all the samba services to ba accessed.
Regards,
MrKiwi