Deepak Shrestha wrote: > 1)First problem I don't understand is, when samba > service is running, web browsers in windows machine pointing to FC4 machine > shows up my served pages. But when samba service is stopped, windows > browsers cannot locate the page anymore. Why is so? I thought there is no > relation between httpd and samba. Are you accessing the page via your samba server's NetBIOS name? When samba isn't running your Fedora machine doesn't use NetBIOS, so the Windows machine can't find the name via broadcast. > 2)Second, even if samba is running, if nothing is > shared from FC4 machine, network browsers of windows machines complains the > "workgroup is unavilable" but > still can see the shared folders of other windows machines. Sounds like a NetBIOS browser list issue, especially if you have only started samba within the last 12 minutes or so. -- William Hooper
