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I need a concise, easy-to-understand set of instructions on how to make this LAN work. I can not see the windows 2000 box and vice versa, but my Internet (DSL, NIC) works fine and I can ping it, and vice versa. I have followed the syntax in netconf, looked around, asked around.
IP addresses are the usual private ones, with the concomitant masks. I have no idea what else to do. I can ping, that is about it.
1. Where do I browse?
2. How can I search for the other PC?
If I understand your predicament, you have a Linux box and a Windows2000 box and they both see the Internet, just not each other, except with ping of course.
Samba will enable you to share Linux devices with Windows and vice versa. One word of caution, when you install and configure Samba, you will have to enable Samba's encrypted password setting, since W2K only supports encrypted passwords. It's not enabled by default. If you install from RPMs, you'll find the setting commented out in your smb.conf file (the main Samba configuration file)
Of course, you'll need to read up on Samba, and I recommend getting the latest release (2.2). Here's the very detailed Samba HOWTO for version 2.2:
Ok. Thank you so much. Now, I see Samba is in here. So I will go to that site to try and configure it. i HOPE I do not have to download and install anything, as I have never had any success with doing this, with archives.
I want to get iunto Linux, and away from Microsoft. desparately.
If I am reading your signature correctly, you are a
"MCP + I + MCSE", I wonder what is the reason that you shifting away from Micro$oft stuff and turn to Linux.
>>If I am reading your signature correctly, you are a
"MCP + I + MCSE", I wonder what is the reason that you shifting away from Micro$oft stuff and turn to Linux.
_________________
Joe <<
Believe me, being an MCSE is not a picnic. I have experience which is why I stay employed, because having an MCSE is a hindrance. I do not recommend it.
I want to dupm MS badly, which is why I need to learn Linux well.
OK. Samba is either NOT installed (It is on the start menu and opens up fine) or something is wrong with it. It is unable to write to the file or directory when I go to save any settings.
Do a 'ps auxf' and see if you have smbd and nmbd running. If you see it, then Samba is installed and running.
If you have installed and configured samba, but you see them running, then you can do this to have it started:
smbd -D
nmbd -D
If you see samba is running and you cannot open or write a file, then its a file or network access permission issue. Check smb.conf file and make sure you use smbpasswd to set same user login name and same password for Windows and Linux, this way you don't have to retype password everytime you try to access the Linux. Good luck.
OK. I will be doing that shortly. Unfortunately, I had to go back into Winders 2K (printer is on the network and I have to print now), but when I get back into the SUPERIOR OS (Mandrake), I will resume Samba config.
BTW, this is the most help I have ever gotten with Linux. I usually to not get concise answers, this fast. Sometimes I do not get any at all. I appreciate it. This keeps people interested in Linux and give MS a run for their monie$$$$$$$$$$$.
They need youz guys out there badly> Lortsa newbies who need to stay at it. Like ME!
To add Samba to your boot routine, use tksysv. I use that to add and delete daemons from my startup. It's an X windows GUI for configuring the daemons that run under the various Linux run levels. Another utility for this is ntsysv. You'll find them either in /sbin or /usr/sbin.
There are also some other ways to configure system and startup options, e.g. /usr/sbin/setup and /sbin/linuxconf, then select system services. Regards.
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[root@zuvich /root]# smbpasswd
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Failed to find entry for user root.
Failed to modify password entry for user root
[root@zuvich /root]#
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Do I need to reinstall Linux? I do not exist?
I also ran smbd -D and nmbd -D and nothing happened.
I found this file:
file:/usr/sbin/samba
and I set all permissions to full for root (which I log in as to do this all).
samba configuration is listed on the start menu ,BTW
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