Seeing Linux from Windows

Chuck Allison pluglist at plug.org
Tue May 13 14:22:52 MDT 2003


Hello Steve,

Tuesday, May 13, 2003, 1:58:36 PM, you wrote:

SR> Is your samba server running?  Have you edited your /etc/samba/smb.conf
SR> and changed your workgroup name to match the workgroup of your XP box?
SR> (that's not critical but it can help)

SR> Tell us what you have done and we'll see if you've missed a step or two
SR> :)

The first I did was change smb.conf to reflect the Window workgroup
name two weeks ago, and started Samba via SWAT. I never shut it down.
But I just tried to go back into SWAT and it timed out!

-- 
Best regards,
 Chuck Allison (The Harmonious CodeSmith)
 Senior Editor, C/C++ Users Journal
 cda at freshsources.com





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