Maybe I don't fully understand your terminology...I need to browse the network to access printers attached locally to client machines and to share files etc... I don't need access to resources provided by the network servers (print server, exchange server, etc...). I am reading info on SAMBA, but I find allot of conflicting data concerning the config file. This may be due to my confusion over different versions or the many different physical network configurations. I have heard of winbind, but did not know it's exact purpose. I'll check into that. When I try to view the network from the "Network Neighborhood" in Konqueror I get the error "Unable to connect to network". Is this error the result of not being able to login with an authorized NT account (as would occur with Win9x/NT/Win2k client) or because my SAMBA config file simply is not aware of an existing network? I hope I made that clear! I appreciate your help...this really is quite fun (and challenging). -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Mike Hicks Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 3:22 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] logging on to a NT domain? Rodd Ahrenstorff <rahrenstorff at yahoo.com> wrote: > > This is my first attempt at networking with LInux. Ok...I have clean > install of Mandrake 8.1 at work. Our NT based LAN uses a DHCP server, > and this serves up the IP address to my Linux client just fine. I can > get out on the internet through our gateway router. However I cannot > browse the network since I cannot login to the PDC. I know I must use > SAMBA. I checked my installed packages and SAMBA client shows up. What exactly are you looking to do here? Do you need to browse the network, or just access the resources on the network? I haven't seen many good browsing tools for Linux, but you can certainly access things if you know what to go for. Also, a new tool (library?) called `winbind' was recently released to allow Linux users to log in using their NT usernames and passwords. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ What's that strange orange / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ glow from our room? Oh, \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) it's the Sun. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com