[CentOS] samba question

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 22 May 2008 14:11:31 John wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of david chong
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:21 AM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: [CentOS] samba question
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running Centos5.1, trying to configure samba now. I am quite new in
> this area and hope help from the list.
>
> I could not connect to it from a windows xp pc
>
> >From the console, I log in and do a
> >
> >smbclient -L localhost -U%
>
> Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4]
>
>         Sharename       Type      Comment
>         ---------       ----      -------
>         samba           Disk
>         IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4)
> Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4]
>
>         Server               Comment
>         ---------            -------
>         ANTIOCH              Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4
>
>         Workgroup            Master
>         ---------            -------
>         MYGROUP              ANTIOCH
>
> Could you pls help.
> Thanks
>
> David
> -----------------------------------------------
> Did you do any basic network trouble shooting like ping the samba server
> from the windows host by servername and the ip addy? Start there. You
> should also need to disable windows simple file sharing in the Tools Menu.
> Have a look at wiki.centos.org there is great how to there about how to do
> all this. You will also need to define samba or unix users on your samba
> server. 

If you haven't done samba troubleshooting before google for it.  There is a 
very good guide out there - the copy I have is *way* out of date so I won't 
offer it.

Anne
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