Urgent Problem with Samba (2.0.7) running on a red hat 7.1 box. Trying to connect to the red hat box from a W2K (sp1) machine. Can ping the linux box from 2000 by name and ip address..I can see the samba server in network neighbourhood...but when I try to connect it comes back with "the network path cannot be found" ...I can connect to the windows box fronm redhat and mount the windows shares into the linux filesystem...but not vice versa....I am using unencrypted passwords on both machines, and have set up the same user accounts on each............please help!!!

Make sure you also have a samba account. Ok, I assume that you have the user account set up under Linux. Now, bring up the command line and type: smbpasswd -a username ...where username is the name of the Linux user account. You'll be prompted to enter and then confirm the password. Use the same password as the Linux account. Your Win2k machine will then be able to browse the samba shares you have set up on the Linux box. If you haven't set up shares, I suggest using Webmin to do it. It's a whole lot easier than manually editing your smb.conf file.