On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 03:18:27PM -0500, Olwe Melwasul wrote:
> Actually, Windows sees the "Samba Server (Lothlorien)" when I click 
> around on the Network places. Then when I click on the Samba-Linux box I 
> get: "Lothlorien is not accessible. You might not have permission to use 
> this network resource. Contact the admin.....The network path was not 
> found."
> 
> Odd that it sees the Samba-Linux box but can't get in or even act like 
> it's trying. Anyway here's my smb.conf again:
> ----

 snip...

> [global]
> 
> hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127.

Is the Windows box on the 192.168.0 subnet? Check with ipconfig.exe.

>  encrypt passwords = yes
>  smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd

Do you have an entry for yourself in the smbpasswd file? Add an entry using:

smbpasswd -a <username>

> # Unix users can map to different SMB User names
>  username map = /etc/samba/smbusers

What is in smbusers?

> [olwe]
>    path = /home/olwe
>    writeable = yes
>    guest ok = yes
> 

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