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Re: Samba problems - help please!

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From: Toby Haynes
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 00:00
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> Situation:
> 3 machine LAN, 2 NT 4.0 machines, one with Linux Red Hat 6.1
> I am trying to use Samba to map shares on my Linux machine to drives on
> my NT machines. Here is what I have done so far. The problem is that my
> Linux shares do not show up under network neighborhood. Also, I cannot
> smbmount my NT shares on the Linux machine.

[snip]

> I created a group called pcusers on the Linux machine, which includes
> the Linux users Administrator and chris. Created a directory called
> /export/pcusers
> 
> 2. Edited /etc/smb.conf as follows:
> [global]
> workgroup = MONSTERLAND
> nebtios name = RODAN

Surely this should read 

netbios name = RODAN

???

Other more experienced people have pointed out other problems, so I
shan't blather on anymore.

> server string = Rodan Samba: %v
> security = user

Cheers,
Toby

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Toby Haynes
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not necessarily reflect those of IBM Canada.
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From: Toby Haynes <thaynes@ca.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Samba problems - help please!
Date: 2000/04/07
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