Stephen Gran on 20 Jan 2004 21:28:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Speaking of Win98 -- Samba question 

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:38:38PM -0500, Art Alexion said:
> I have never been able to get samba to work, and thought I'd give it 
> another try.  I can ping the Linux machine from windows and vice versa, 
> but can't get samba to work.  There are no NT, 2000 or XP machines, just 
> a win98 and a win95.  Does samba require at least one "NT" machine?

No - it acts as the NT machine.  Check your firewall rules, I forget
what ports are essential, but at least 137-139 or so, tcp and udp.  Also
the config file is, obviously, important.  If you're having problems,
you might post the relevant parts.  

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