Guest shivohum Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 Hi there. I am a complete newbie to LINUX in general and MDK in particular. I am trying to connect to a windows network from my Mandrake machine, and in order to do so I have to change the workgroup of the Mandrake computer. I've read that in order to do this I have to go edit smb.conf. But trying to edit smb.conf results in an error message: I can't write the file. Perhaps it's in use? Any ideas? Another question: I didn't read anything about editing workgroups, or Samba, or webmin or swat (whatever that is... localhost:901 doesn't work for me) in any of the documentation. And yet changing the workgroups to be able to access Windows computers seems to me to be one of the most common tasks when setting up a new computer. Is there some documentation that I've missed that would walk one through configuration of this simple issue? Or is it required that one search through forums and so on? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 Unfortunately, we can't help you with the documentation that comes with the CD's since we're not affiliated with Mandrake, but we can help you with setting up SMB :) you can't write to the file because only root can write to it. Instead of editing the file, you may find it easier to go into Mandrake Control Center (run mcc or look for it in your menu), go under Networking and/or Mount Points (I can't remember which it's under) and go into the Samba section. This should let you set your workgroup...if I remember correctly. If this doesn't work, we'll try another way, but I suggest trying this first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 I beleive you connect to webmin with this actual adress. http://localhost:10000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shivohum Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 Tyme: I was indeed looking for the Samba section in mcc but I couldn't find where to change the workgroup. I still don't know where it is. Though there was a place to mount network shares. And I tried to. It asked for username/password, which I gave. I saw the relevant shares. I tried to mount one, it seemed to succeed. But when I try to see the /mnt directory in Konqueror (how do you get the file manager in GNOME?) Konqueror freezes for a long long time, refusing to close, and then showed an empty directory. Next time it gave me a SIGSEGV error and still wouldn't close. By the way, how do you kill applications that won't close? Is there a windows "task manager" equivalent in GNOME? SwiftDeath: Thanks for the webmin info. I already had that, but I couldn't find the place to change workgroups. Do you know where that is? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 I can't remember off the top of my head.. but keep looking in the sub-sections and you'll eventually find it, because I remember changing the workgroups. I know it works, I did this sucessfully before, like 2 weeks ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 The route is: MCC -> Server Wizards -> Configure Samba. The first question asked is the workgroup name. Did you install drakwizard? It is not one of the default packages (goodness knows why). If you have all your samba packages installed you can also go to localhost:901 to configure samba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shivohum Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 polemicz, yup, when I installed drakwizard I saw the server configuration tab appear... thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugosantos Posted June 12, 2004 Report Share Posted June 12, 2004 well, let's see if you can edit smb.conf using SWAT (browsing configuration tool that come's with samba) is your network card working? ping ok? use konqueror with location: http://localhost/901 login as root then edit al the necessary data... Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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