>>When logged on as rootwhen logged on as root, there was no "man service" >>file, but the service command worked . Having used chkdsk, Samba started >on >>reboot so I no longer had a problem. >There is a difference between 'su -', which gives you root's full >environment, and 'su', which gives you some of root's priviledges. [<Yigal>] [<Yigal>] It worked - at least started to: service smb start started the service.. I can see now the Linux PC from the XP, but I get a request for password. I want to allow free access: how do I tell the Linux to share? (in XP it's simple: right click and share)
