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Tad wrote:

> I have had similar problems - and was wondering if anyone could chime
> in to help.
> 
> I have a Windows 2000 Workstation box and a Linux box. Going through a
> hub. I can ping both machines from each other. I can actually see the
> workgroup of the Linux box in the Windows explorer under 'entire
> network', but when I click on it I get a message that 'The network
> path was not found'. I believe I took the defaults on Linux setup and
> the firewall is 'medium'. Is this my problem? How do I change it?
> 
> Note: I am able to hit the linux box from the Windows box with an http
> browser in order to access apache served pages, using a non-standard
> http port.
> 
> I have followed about every tutoial on Samba (linuxnewbie, two books,
> other hints) and have done the following:
> 
> Made sure that there is a user on the linux box with the exact same
> name/password as on the Windows box.
> 
> Made sure there is a guest user acount and associated group
> 
> Made sure that the share is owned by this group
> 
> Made sure that the common user name between the systems has access to
> the share by virtue of it being defined in the same group (smbgroup)
> that owns the share directory.
> 
> Turned encrypted passwords on on the Linux side to match what Windows
> will want to send.
> 
> I've made sure the 'hosts allow' is correct
> 
> I've made sure it is writable, etc.
> 
> I simply can't even connect to the Linux box from the windows box at
> all.
> 
> Help!
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Tad

Your Windows user must have an account on the Linux box; you do log into 
windows with a user name.  Your Windows password box must have 2, not 3, 
lines in it.  You must add that user to smbpasswd.  See the smb.conf which 
I supplied in this very thread on 08/03/01.