[Samba] Trouble with Samba/RH 7.3

[James S. Martin]

Good way to debug is to first do a


smbclient -L 192.168.1.100

That will give you a list of shares on the host.  If that doesn't return 
anything, you probably forgot to restart your daemon or are having other 
networking issues.

James

Anthony Abby wrote:
> I'm having trouble connecting to a share I created on my Redhat 7.3 box,
> from my Windows XP workstation.  I had set it up earlier on a FreeBSD
> 4.6 server and was able to connect to it from a Windows 2000
> workstation, but can not seem to get it right here at home.
> 
> Here's my smb.conf file.....
> 
> # Samba config file created using SWAT
> # from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1)
> # Date: 2002/09/20 19:25:46
> 
> # Global parameters
> [global]
> 	workgroup = APLUSDATA
> 	netbios name = LAPTOP
> 	server string = laptop
> 	security = SHARE
> 	encrypt passwords = Yes
> 	name resolve order = host bcast
> 	local master = No
> 	lock dir = /tmp/samba
> 	guest account = anthony
> 
> [share]
> 	comment = Samba Share
> 	path = /share
> 	read only = No
> 	guest ok = Yes
> 
> 
> I created a share in the root directory... /share, which right now is
> set to 0777.
> 
> When I try to connect via //laptop/share or //192.168.1.100/share I get
> "The network path was not found".  Checked the pertinent log files, but
> found nothing relevant there.  Could someone point me in the right
> direction?  Thanks for any help.
> 
> Anthony
>