samba newbie installation guide need one!!!

[DntKnwHw]

i have
2 computer XP and Gentoo 1.4 ---> kde
crossover cable, got both drivers working, e100(linux compiled it inside the kernel) and cnetpro200 xp
samba installed (but not yet configure)

problem,
i can't network them, i just want them to be connected, a typical connection, just for sharing files and printers, and of course network gaming (ex. quake 3)

i don't know what files to configure, what settings for, linux and windows

so anyone can give me a "samba for dummies" step by step process. pls. really need help,

[GeneralKane]

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml#doc_chap7

[MOS-FET]

ok, first check if you can ping both computers. on the linux machine, you can assign a static ip in /etc/conf.d/net. on the winxp machine, it's somewhere in network settings. when you can ping both comps, you're half way trough. next you need to emerge samba, if not done already. all samba related stuff is done in /etc/samba/smb.conf. mine looks like this:

[vbenares]

I can do half of this - I can see my linux box from my windows box. I cannot see my windows box from the linux one. This seems like the key:

[MOS-FET]

ok, since you've wins support enabled in samba, you should be able to use the winxp computer's name to connect. go to your win machine and look for the name of the SHARE, not the name of the directory you're sharing. for example, you could share "My Documents" and simply call the share "mydocs". then this should work:

[vbenares]

tom:

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately it didn't work. It seems that linux box just cannot see skeeter. I created c;\sambatest to eliminate problems with spaces etc. and shared it to Everyone. Still no luck.

[DntKnwHw]

hey thanks, i'll try, i hope it will work,

[MOS-FET]

hmmm, do you have the correct workgroup name for both computers. in /etc/samba/smb.conf there's a line "workgroup =". put your workgroup name here, e.g. "network". on the win machine, set up the same workgroup name in network preferences. you said it worked the other way right, accessing the linux share from your win machine? so your networks config (IP, netmask ...) seems to be OK.

if you have wins enabled, you should be able to use a computer's name instead of it's IP address. try the following: get your win machine's IP and then try to access the share by entering "smb://IPaddress/share" in the konqueror address bar.

give me some more info. what exactly happens if you enter the "smb://..." in konqueror? did you really use the name of the SHARE, not the name of the directory?

quick kernel guide: the kernel basically consists of many "modules", each module has a certain functionality. for example, there's a module than can make a specific network card work, there's a module that can acces FAT partitions, or there's a module that can give you firewire capabilities. with "make menuconfig" you can choose which modules to compile and which not. you should always compile only the modules you really need. you can compile a module as - well - as a module [M] or directly into the kernel [*]. the first is good if you don't need a module very often. you can then load it only when you need it and unload it when it's not needed anymore. if you compile it into the kernel, this module will always be loaded at boot time, it's "inside" or - better - it's a part of the kernel.

[vbenares]

tom:

Thanks for your help.

[MOS-FET]

it looks like the network itself is working, but nautilus can't browse smb shares. well, you'll want to mount them anyway, so you'll have to add smbfs support to the kernel. do this:

[vbenares]

tom:

Thanks for your patience. I will give this a try this afternoon.

[vbenares]

Okay. Maybe I cannot compile a kernel.

I can now get the linux box to figure out what IP address DHCP has given to the windows box and find the box by name. I THINK the change that made the difference was changing /etc/nsswitch.conf

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[vbenares]

Aieee! I forgot to mount /boot before copying the new kernel to boot. Boy, I feel even dumber than usual.

Everything works fine now. Thanks.