Guest larry Posted December 17, 2002 Report Share Posted December 17, 2002 I've been trying to set up Samba to enable me to access MDK 9.0 from Win 2k, and having no luck. My boxes are set up with fixed IP addresses, using a D-Link DI-707 firewall/router. When I bring up IE6 on the Windows machine and type in the fixed address of the MDK box, the Apache welcome screen comes up, which is fine. However, nothing shows up in Windows Network Neighborhood. Does anyone have experience using Samba with Win 2K? Thanks for any help, Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PegasusMD Posted December 17, 2002 Report Share Posted December 17, 2002 In order for Mandrake server to show up in Network Nieghborhood you need to have the Samba server either register with a network wins server or act as a wins server. Michael Delessio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest larry Posted December 17, 2002 Report Share Posted December 17, 2002 Thanks for the response, Michael. I'm using Webmin to configure Samba, and last night I clicked on the option to "Be a Wins server" in the Windows Networking Options screen. I saved the configuration and restarted Samba but still nothing showed up in Windows. I'm sure there's something I am not doing correctly but I can't figure out what it is. Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted December 17, 2002 Report Share Posted December 17, 2002 have you set up the workgroup name to be the same for both computers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted December 17, 2002 Report Share Posted December 17, 2002 Take a look at those:: With this post you'll have to right clic the network neiboohood and select 'map a network driver' ... read it.. http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...7177&highlight= (Check the fourth post) Never tried this one but it seems ok .. lol http://www.tweakhound.com/mdk9net.htm Hope this work for you.. MOttS EDIT : The link for tweakhound page was broken .. I fix it. sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TweakHound Posted December 17, 2002 Report Share Posted December 17, 2002 MottS, I wrote that for Newbies like myself. My goal was to keep them away from command line/terminal windows. For anyone that has been using linux for a while it has more steps than you need (I wanted to include all the tools that could be of use later). It is also XP specific as XP has SMB "issues" but perhaps should work for W2K, I haven't tested it. I would recommend this guide: http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba.html Very good and it addresses the XP issues too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest larry Posted December 18, 2002 Report Share Posted December 18, 2002 Thanks for your help everyone. It's working now and looks great. :D The problem was on the Windows side, not Samba. Windows networking was not set up properly. The Client Server and File Sharing software were not installed and once I activated them, the MDK box came right up in Network Neighborhood. Now I'm running a mail server supporting several of my domains on the MDK box and feeding the mail to Outlook Express under Windows. Works like a charm. This BBS and the people who participate are awesome. Sure beats the "support" provided by commercial software. :wink: Great job, guys! And thanks Motts for providing so much useful information. Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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