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[LinuxCrusader]

Hu, I see. I'm guessing you are trying to use samba to access a windows 2003 server, right? If this correct, then this requires a different deal or way to access your shares through Samba for win2003/XP.

I found these links helpful. I think you can pull out some info:
http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.p...mp;#entry534086
Also check out this
http://asia.cnet.com/enterprise/netadmin/0,39035505,39081966-39000223c-1,00.htm
and finally
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SambaDomainMember

I hope that helps a little. Let us know how it went.

[Perivale]

Thanks for the reply,

My set up contains no dedicated server. There is one PC running XP Profesional +SP2 OS conected via wired ethernet to a router acting as a hub and a DHCP and a PC running Linux also conected via wired ethernet to the same router. I have successfully added other Windows PCs to the network by plugging them into the router plus appropriate setup.

[BSchindler]

I don't run SUSE but if your version of samba is relatively current (I assume it is) you may want to look at the following:

I see a couple of possible problems in your smb.conf file. You fail to set a netbios name. (You are running NETBIOS or CIFS and XP wants your machine named). Also, in your [test] specification you are pointing to an area which does not normally have access permissions for a casual user. You may want to modify [test] so that you bypass this (temporarily) by saying admin users Anybody.
Also, in general, you must have a Linux user Anybody as well as a smb user Anybody. This is not true for all releases, but keep it in mind.

Here is a copy of my smb.conf file, modified for your network and testing. I run this with XP SP2 and Samba on FC3.

[global]
workgroup = SPECTRUM
netbios name = GREEN
server string = Green - Samba Server
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
printing = lprng
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
dns proxy = no
browseable = yes

[test]
comment = Green - Samba test area
path = /usr/local/samba/tmp
browseable = yes
writeable = yes
printable = no
admin users = Anybody
create mask = 0777

Hope this helps.

Bill

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