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  From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo_Christer_=D8iongen?= <joco@stavanger.rorhandel.no>
  To  : South Australian Linux User Group (E-post) <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:13:43 +0100

Lack of SAMBA knowlegde

Hello!

I've been trying for the last couple of weeks trying to get a Linux box 
shearing files'n'drives with our NT environment. The thing is that I want 
to use the Linux box (Redhat 6.0) as an intranet server. I've managed to 
put Apache on it to act as the web server bur i still need to be able to 
transfer files on to it from various NTworkstation and NT terminal server 
clients (Which are all 4.0 with SP4 or higher).

So I looked in SAMBA's direction and started working. I downloaded SAMBA 
2.0.5a from the Net. I followed the install instructions, refered to the 
SMB-HOWTO and got it sort of working. My graphical desktop enviroment is 
GNOME. GNOME has a Samba browser. This browser shows the PDC and the 
different BDC's and drives that are shared from them. But if I try to enter 
into these drives the SAMBA browser hangs and I have to kill it.

Trying to conect to the Linux from a NT box via Network Neighborhood I can 
see the printers folder (yes I'm able to print out on the network printer 
via the PDC) and my own folder in the home directory. But trying to access 
my folder I get an error message: \\Linux\Jo is not accessible. The network 
name can not be found.