Samba setup on RH8.0

[Jared L. Black]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 13:38, Jared L. Black wrote:
> I need some help with my network and getting samba to work.  My home
> network (hardwired) consists of an XP laptop (jblaptop) an old win98
> machine (pavillion), my wife's Dell Dimension (dimension) and a
> workstation running RH8.0.  All machines are networked except the linux
> box.  I want the linux box connected so the analysis work I do on it can
> be easily sent to the laptop where I do all my report writing, printing
> and emailing (my transfer method now is by USB Thumbdrive).
> 
> My internet setup has a cable modem connecting to a netgear 4 port
> router, which connects to each machine.  I installed samba (3.0.8) and
> it seems to be working, but the names and addresses are out of whack.  I
> can see the localhost on each windows machine but can't connect to it. 
> I don't know the command for connecting to the windows machines from the
> linux box.
> 
> I can access the netgear router with a web browser with the either the
> URL netgear or http://192.168.0.1. 
> 
> A guy tried to set up the network, but couldn't finish it.  One thing he
> did was set the lmhosts file to:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>     
> Also he set the hosts file to:
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
> 
> 192.168.0.1             netgear
> 192.168.0.2             laptop
> 192.168.0.4             pavillion       hp
> 
> The two comment lines have me spooked; I don't know why he did that.
> 
> I added 2 lines which are
> 
> 192.168.0.3             server
> 192.168.0.5             dimension
> 
> The Samba-Guide says the hosts file should have the line 
> 192.168.1.1             server
> 
> I didn't put it in because it seemed that the netgear router already had
> an address similar to that (192.168.0.1). 
> 
> When I do a 
> smbclient -L localhost -U%
> 
> I get 
>         Sharename       Type      Comment
>         ---------       ----      -------
>         winxp           Disk
>         IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Samba 3.0.8)
>         ADMIN$          IPC       IPC Service (Samba 3.0.8)
> Domain=[HOME] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.8]
> 
>         Server               Comment
>         ---------            -------
>         DIMENSION            Patti's PC
>         LOCALHOST            Samba 3.0.8
> 
>         Workgroup            Master
>         ---------            -------
>         HOME                 DIMENSION
> 
> The smb.conf file (based on Samba-Guide) is 
> [global]
>        workgroup = HOME
>        security = SHARE
> [winxp]
>        path = /winxp
>        read only = Yes
>        guest ok = Yes
> 
> I know there are inconsistencies in the setup, but I don't know what to
> fix.  Hopefully some one can help.
> 
> My goal is to simply be able to send files back and forth.
> Jared Black
> 
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Never mind.  I got Samba to work (kinda) after a lot of trial and
error.  Since its T&E, I don't know why it works.

No response to my request - looks like I'm not a member of the club.
Jared Black