Can't see shares on Mandrake box but can on laptop

[cage47]

This is the last step I need to finish my conversion back. With 10.0 I have the laptop loaded with debian and samba 2. I have Mandrake setup with samba 3. The laptop always connected to the big box when Debian was installed in it but Can't get it to see the Mandrake shares now. And it's setup identical in the smb.conf

 

[global]

workgroup = THEKEYS

server string = Samba Server %v

security = SHARE

encrypt passwords = No

map to guest = Bad User

passdb backend = passwd

log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

max log size = 50

socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

printcap name = cups

dns proxy = No

ldap ssl = no

printer admin = @adm

hosts allow = 192.168.47, 192.168.46, 127

printing = cups

 

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = /var/spool/samba

create mask = 0700

guest ok = Yes

printable = Yes

print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers.

browseable = No

 

[print$]

path = /var/lib/samba/printers

write list = @adm, root

inherit permissions = Yes

guest ok = Yes

 

[pdf-generator]

comment = PDF Generator (only valid users)

path = /var/tmp

printable = Yes

print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf %s ~%u //%L/%u %m %I "%J" &

 

[cage]

comment = Cage's Home dir

path = /home/cage

read only = No

guest ok = Yes

 

Now I've done just about all changes I can think of. Samba is running and I can see the laptop shares but the laptop and Mandrake box can't see the mandrake box shares. I use linneighborhood and in my workgroup both the laptop and the big box show but no shares available. They must have changed something since the last time I used mandrake. What am I missing?

[cage47]

I found the fix by accident. I uninstalled and reinstalled samba the third time. I set it up as usual. But this time I also installed webmin, which installed a bunch of other package as dependencies. Well once that was done....Bingo, the mandrake network was visible on both machines. I think it might have been the pam-authentication package that installed with webmin. Either way it's all working now.

 

Now how would I have known to do that otherwise. And shouldn't samba have loaded the pam-authentication package if it was needed? Oh boy back in dependency hell again.