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by sameh fouad 1 view

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Dear all Linux and Unix experts, I didnt know that Linux was so hard until I was stucked in it like this. I have no previous idea about Linux exept working with Slackware 7.1 a year ago.
I have a network with Novell 4.11 as a server and a variety of Windows workstation platforms.
I decided to work with Linux so I installed Mandrake 9.2 on a machine, everything works fine, I download a Novell client and connected succesfully with my Novell server, and even ran a Dos program on the server thru a Dos emulator. But when it came to Samba, (It was easy when I installed it on Slackware before), but here in Mandrake, I thought it was easier.
You know! Eveything is ok, swat, testparm and even the command "smbclient -U% -L localhost"
This means that the services samba is running.
The problem is,
1, for the Linus box to be shown in windows network neibourhood, I have to issue the last command "smbclient -U% ......"
2, when I try to acces it though a windows box, this message appears: \\NameOfLinuxBox is not accessible.
The computer or share name could not be found. Make sure you typed it correctly, and try again.
3, After about 10 minutes, when I refresh network neigbourhood in windows, I dont find it in there.
Have any idea?
Note that whenever I checked the samba status in Swat, I see that it's running.

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by briantruitt

I'll try to help, even though I've never used Samba using Mandrake, Swat, or anything else you mentioned. One of the first things is to make sure that your Workgroup/Domain is specified in your smb.conf file. That should solve your Network Neighborhood problem. Not being accessible might be related to the permissions on your Samba shares. Unless your shares are wide open, you will have to add the users using smbadduser command using the command line or I guess there should be some way to add them using Swat but I'm not sure. Whenever I deal with Samba, I always make sure I can see shares in Network Neighborhood and that the permissions are setup correctly. Hope this helps.

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