how-to SaMBa?

[Mike Bilow]

Robert Luoma wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 RL> I am trying to get a NT workstation
 RL> to "see" my linux machine running SMB
 RL> and though smbd seems to come up,
 RL> the NT workstation sees nothing.

 RL> Can anyone give tips on what may be going
 RL> wrong or suggestions on what I might
 RL> be overlooking in the HOW-TOs and READMEs.

I assume you have the original distribution, which includes the FAQ document?

Samba has two key differences from a standard (Microsoft) SMB server: (1) it
uses NetBIOS/SMB encapsulated in TCP/IP and will not (at present) work with raw
NetBIOS/SMB, and (2) it is not a browsable resource and either each client must
manually specify the server name or some machine other than the Samba server
must be made the resource browser.

Also, make a point of dropping in at http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba.
 
-- Mike