I have not been able to browse my shared directory i.e. "public" from other Windows machines within our LAN. It always flags the error that the machine is not accessible when I try to access it from Network Neighbourhood. I have Redhat 7.1 Server installation. I can however browse other windows machines in LinNeighbouhood including my Linux sharee directory My smb.conf is as listed below. Thanks for your kind assistance. [global] workgroup = SWCACTS server string = A Linux Server hosts allow = 192.120.28. 127. printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes printing = lprng guest account = smbuser log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 0 security = SHARE socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 local master = no os level = 33 name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast wins support = yes wins proxy = yes dns proxy = no preserve case = no short preserve case = no logon script = STARTUP.BAT [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes path = /home/%U hide dot files = yes [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no public = yes printable = yes [public] comment = Public Stuff path = /home/Public valid users = smbuser public = yes writable = yes create mask = 0775 hide dot files = yes

Modify or add these: security = user encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd Open a cmd prompt as root and do this: adduser username (make username the same as your windows username) smbpasswd -a username (enter your windows user's password) service smb restart Hope it helps

Thanks for your speedy response to my problem. I made the changes as per your response, but the problem still persists! I'm baffled by this problem. Please help me out.

I've the same problem, except that when I search drives on my network (by clicking the right mouse on the network neighbourhood, and ...), strangely the linux machine box appears in this reshearch and I can get in by double clicking on .. I hope this will help you. If so, let me know.

One other smb.conf addition is necessary if you don't already have it: netbios name = nameofserver (Sorry, I forgot to mention that one earlier - make sure your windows machines are in the same workgroup as the samba server)