[PLUG] XP Home will not see running samba

[Steven A. Adams]

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 09:35, Mike De La Mater wrote:
> XP home won't play with my RH8.0 box. It won't "find" it, ping it or be
> pinged by it. "smbclient -L 192.168.10. " shows it, but won't connect by
> the name shown or IP address.
> 
> I've got running shares on RH, passwords are encrypted on the system, XP
> sees peers and connects to the internet. XP is fully patched.
> 
> Googling the problem, I find similar problems, no solutions. It's been
> suggested on some sites that XPHome is XPscrewed when it comes to samba.
> 
> Anybody had success connecting XP Home Edition to Samba?

Only XP Pro. Did you make sure that all packet filtering in the network
adapter on the XP box is disabled? Have you loaded the MS Network Client
on the XP box? Are you attaching to the right workgroup?

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