On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 18:42 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > 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. ---- OK had another idea of something to try... from linux system smbclient -L YOUR_IP_ADDRESS_or_NETBIOS_NAME press enter when it asks for a password...does it connect? does it show shares? Craig
