Howto Samba (Update)

[Luis Murillo]

An update on the situation ;)

I have been able to configure Samba, now I'm able to see all of the
computers connected to the network and access their shares from the
WinXP machine. I can do the same from the Linux machines but I'm still
having the problem that I can only access them by their IP address and
not their hostnames :(

Now I have a question regarding the username and password sent by
nautilus, for example if I access the other Linux box through Samba I
see nothing :|. Now that other Linux box has Samba configured security
as user (i.e. security = user), so if I access the box from the WinXP
machine I'm able to see my home directory and all the shares that that
box has, so what username and password does nautilus send or does it
even send any information regarding the user?

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 17:13 -0600, Luis Murillo wrote:
[...]
> I'm trying to get Samba working and till now I have it partially
> working, by this I mean that I can connect to other network machines by
> their IP address and not their netbios name, for example I can see
> rigel's shares by entering smb://192.168.1.227 in Nautilus, but if I
> double click on rigel's icon or try to access smb://rigel then it gives
> me an error:
> 
> 	The folder contents could not be displayed.
> 	"Windows Network: betelgeuse" couldn't be found.
> 	Perhaps it has recently been deleted.
[...]
> My guess is that I have a local DNS problem or it's missing, although I
> have added the IPs and hostnames on the hosts and lmhost files and I can
> ping them by name so there is no problem there.
[...]
> Topology:
> 
> (Internet)--{Modem}--[Gir]---{Switch}--[Betelgeuse]
>                                   '----[Rigel]
> 
> I have posted my smb.conf in http://shinju.250free.com/linuxconf
[...]
-- 
Luis Murillo M.
lmurillo at gmx.net
Heredia, Costa Rica

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