New to Fedora, Network Issues.

[Mike Adolf]

On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 22:58 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On 06/07/09 20:49, Mike Adolf wrote:
> > Bruno,
> > 
> > I disabled the Firewall and iptables and ip6tables.  Now when I select
> > "Places/Network/Windows Network" I no longer get the "failed to
> > retrieve..." message but now I see an empty window, no PCs show. Ping
> > still fails. I have never before ran the linux firewall. I always just
> > depended on the firewall in the router.
> > 
> 
> What version of Win are you using.
> 
> Making sure this is correct,
> the shared backup disk is on the Linux Box?
> 
> Also this may be of help:
> http://www.howtoforge.com/fedora-10-samba-standalone-server-with-tdbsam-backend
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Frank
> 

The win machine is vista with the latest auto updates.

The disk is external on the Linux machine.

I'll look at the reference you gave.

Thanks Mike