Samba & Win XP

[landro1200]

I have installed FC 4 and I configured Samba to share some drives accross my home network. I can't see the Linux box when I try to browse the workgroup or to map a network drive from a Windoze XP Pro box. Both computers are plugged to the same router and both can ping the other at the command prompt (but I can't map a drive in Win using the same IP address that was successfully pinged from the command prompt).

I would appreciate any input on this problem.

Regards,

Landro

[mellis95]

Same username and password on each computer? smb service running on FC4? What are the details of smb.conf?

[rmcscout]

Are you sure you don't have a firewall blocking the connection (most likely on the FC4 box)?

[landro1200]

Port 139 and 445 are open (these port are the ones used by Samba according to the documentation)

[landro1200]

Yes for the users. I will post de smb.conf shortly.
Thanks!

[landro1200]

Here is the file content:

#======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]

workgroup = MAISON
server string = Linux
netbios name = Linux
encrypt passwords = yes
wins support = yes

[data]

path = /data
browseable = yes
valid users = Landro, root
write list = Landro, root

[lnmn]

Port 139 and 445 are open (these port are the ones used by Samba according to the documentation)

check these ports on your firewall

# cat /etc/services | grep netbios
netbios-ns 137/tcp # NETBIOS Name Service
netbios-ns 137/udp
netbios-dgm 138/tcp # NETBIOS Datagram Service
netbios-dgm 138/udp
netbios-ssn 139/tcp # NETBIOS session service
netbios-ssn 139/udp

browsing uses different ports i believe...as illustrated above.