Samba Samba!

[Stew Schneider]

Hi Donn

Your first post made it, but gmail won't echo it to you. Drives 
everybody nutz. Everybody but you sees your post.

stew


Donn wrote:
> (Second send; kmail is suffering to and from gmail and I can't be sure this 
> went to the list)
> Lo,
> I took a stab, just now, at this samba lark and (like the last few times over 
> a couple of years) that I have tried it, I only get so far and grind to a 
> halt.
>
> I followed a thread on the ubuntu forums and on the Kubuntu side of things it 
> all goes swimmingly. 
> [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202605]
>
> On XP Home I set my interface to WINS (whatever the heck that is) and reboot 
> the machine, all per the thread's info. After that I try to map a network 
> drive and I enter the folder (\\myhostname\Myfiles) and hit Finish. This is 
> where the problem happens, it asks me for a username and password. 
>
> Now, I had set that up (I thought) on Kubuntu to be 'donn' and 'ok' (just to 
> test things), but whatever I enter in that window does nothing. It flashes 
> away for a microsecond and comes right back again. I have tried changing the 
> password (back on Kubuntu with smbpasswd to emulate variously, my Kubuntu 
> password and my Windows password (blank) but nothing works.
>
> Anyone have any clues?
>
> /d
>
>