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 There is a very good guide out there - the copy I have is *way* out of date so I won't offer it.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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080522/d76d29ff/attachment-0005.sig>