[Samba] lost and confused

[Gavin]

Dear List,

I'm BRAND NEW to samba but I have RTFM, checked the samba for dummies book and 
a host of other texted docs and I'm still lost. Is there a site the can 
explain setting up samba without all the bla bla bla.. I have a school in 
japan and I have samba running on my Mandrake linux 8.2 prosuite box. I want 
my other boxes (linux and windows) to 1. use the printer and 2. students can 
access their folders on the server.  at the moment, none of my boxes can 
access the server files or printer, the windows boxes do not show a 
connection to the server on the network.. My server box also doubles as my 
firewall. 
I did some firewall checking and found out that ports 136 and 139 are 
stealthed to the internet, could this also be a problem.. (server is also 
blocking the win connects) if more information is need please let me know 
a.s.a.p!
TIA

Gavin


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