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 at 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