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by manish_rit21

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Sir,
1) What is the difference between Samba Client and Samba Server?
2) I have installed Samba on my Linux system and have made the changes in the smb.conf file and it is also showing in the Network Neighbourhood of windows system and when I click on it it is showing the folder named home and printer, when I click on Printer it can go inside but when I click on the Home Directry it says the Network Name cannot be found, Please guide me and tell me what to do?
Regards,
Manish.

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by porheng

Hi
1)the samba server can share resource to client and the samba client can retrive from server.

2) at this point can you give me see your smb.conf?

Porheng

by brian m

For question #2, does your user account actually have a home directory on the Linux box? Does it have the necessary file permissions to access that directory? Are you using encrypted or unencrypted passwords? And have you added the user accounts to the smbpasswd file? Printer shares are often set up a publicly accessible (meaning no user ID and password is needed to use them). But home shares are not set up this way by default, so you should look into login/authenication issues. Check out the log files SAMBA creates (located in /var/log/samba by default in most distributions) to see what what the error messages say.

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