<div class="gmail_quote">2008/1/18 Dr P Dupre <<a href="mailto:pd520@york.ac.uk">pd520@york.ac.uk</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello, On a FC7 machine, Windows network does not show any machine, when from a microsofy machine I can see plenty ! In addition system-config-printer gives me an error: There was a problem connecting to the CUPS server. Are those things correlated ? Regards </blockquote><div>here _some_ ideas. To allow access to the PC edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and add the PC's IP address. hosts allow = 111.222.333.444 on the Windows machine: ..Add Network Place; Share name \\111.222.333.444\myShareDir I think you need to do a bit of reading on this subject. <a href="http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch10_:_Windows,_Linux,_and_Samba"> http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch10_:_Windows,_Linux,_and_Samba</a> <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Samba-Authenticated-Gateway-HOWTO.html">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Samba-Authenticated-Gateway-HOWTO.html </a> ~af </div></div>