Craig White wrote: > ----- > that's a web connection... Right. IE adds http: to a raw address > > http://ip_address > > \\ip_address should provide a network connection - not an http > connection. Perhaps I misspoke with Internet Explorer. Try doing this in > 'My Computer' instead of Internet Explorer though it shouldn't mater. That got somewhere. When I entered 192.168.1.20 into the My Computer address bar, it got a failure to connect. 192.168.1.100 (the laptop address) did show it's file system. It looks like it's getting closer, but I can't for the life of me see what's wrong. The hosts parameters in smb.conf read hosts allow =127. 192.168. Which is a direct paraphrase from the man smb.conf page. ---Michael
