[Samba] Problems connecting to Samba through windows

[Justin Edwards]

Test 5 of the diagnostics.txt failed. SWAT is telling me that nmbd is
running though.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Hammer" <Joel at HammersHome.com>
To: "Justin" <justin at cview.com.au>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Problems connecting to Samba through windows


> Have you walked through DIAGNOSIS.txt in the docs/text section with the
> samba sources.
> Is samba running on the linux box?
> Joel
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:16:53PM +1000, Justin wrote:
> > I just started using Linux a couple of weeks ago and have been trying to
setup samba.
> > I have a couple of text books I have been following which have helped me
be able to run the
> > smbclient from Linux to view both the shares on my Linux and xp machine.
> >
> > The problem is that I can not access the Linux files from my xp machine.
I can ping the machine
> > without a problem and can also view the machine through network
neighbourhood. However when I
> > double click the Linux machine in network neighbourhood I receive the
error:
> >
> > \\linux is not accessible. you might not have permissions to use this
network resource.
> > No service is operating at the destination network endpoint on the
remote system.
> >
> > I have gone through all the documentation I can find but nothing seems
to help. Could someone please advise me on what I am doing wrong or not
doing at all. I am still learning so the more explanatory the better.
> >
> > I look forward to your response
> > Justin