Am Freitag, den 23.09.2005, 13:16 -0500 schrieb Harol Hunter: > I'm having a problem configuring samba to access my LAN, when a make > > $ ping machine > > what I get is > > unknown host machine You don't need to care about this for a Samba / Win client configuration. This problem is due to the fact that you didn't set up a DNS for your internal TCP/IP network. You may not need it it you don't have to access machines by TCP/IP. Windows can work without DNS. > > However if make > > $smbclient -L \\machine > > or try to see it in Nautilus, samba does recognize the machine , even > when I can't access it because when I try it says > > NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED > > machine = W2K > > and I'm usin FC4 > Perhaps you may follow the step-by-step guide at http://morna.barkhof.uni-bremen.de/Fedora-Samba-Draft.html Peter