[SLUG] Disc and print sharing with XP

[Phil Kershaw]

Hi John,

If you can see the samba share but can not can not access the contents
its more likely to be permissions issue on the shared directory than an
iptables issue. 

Regards

Phil


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[mailto:scarborough-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of
john at johnallsopp.co.uk
Sent: 01 December 2004 18:01
To: Scarborough Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Disc and print sharing with XP


>> I've not set about working out how to get XP to connect, but I'm 
>> thinking it will never show the Linux shares because it'll be 
>> rejected.
>
> The XP box shows the linux Samba share. Whoopedo. But won't let me 
> view the contents, so it is the firewall I need to sort out by the 
> looks of it.
>
> It's not happy with the printer either, but again I can see the samba 
> shared machine.

Seems I'll have to learn iptables. That's 2morrows job then.

J

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