what they running? 95 or someat .. they may need to add an entry to their
lmhosts or use \\<netbiosname>\datalib
Dave.
On 19 Apr 2001, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> Can anyone propose an idiots guide to making a directory available
> to a windows user, via samba?
>> I've created a user under Linux, so there's a local name/password
> pair, I've put
>> [datalib]
> comment = Data Library
> path = /home/data/
> read only = Yes
>> in /etc/smb.conf (kill -SIGHUP samba, even restarted it), and asked
> the windows user to do the biz with "map network drive" in Windows
> Explorer (using \\<IP-number>\datalib as the "path").
>> They get: "The computer or sharename could not be found. Make sure
> you typed it correctly and try again."
>> I've got various shares exported already that I can access from
> various machines, so I can't see where the problem is.
>> Any ideas?
>> Brendan
>>
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