Samba sorta works - help!

[Hondaman900]

So I have Samba set up and running on my new RedHat 7.2 Linux box, and can see the system on my network on other Win systems. However, how can I authenticate so that I can connect to the Linux system and browse files/folders? Is there a way to prompt for login credentials when trying to connect, or can I open access to by LAN members?

Any help would be most appreciated.

[tonimontanna]

If you are using Gnome then you can open your home directory icon and type in smb:

From command line one needs to mount the file. I think it's smbclient //server/share.

I could be wrong about the command line becuase one has not accessed Samba shares from command line for quite sometime.

[Hondaman900]

Forgive me, since I'm new to this, but where is my home directory icon in Gnome, and how do I open it to type "smb"?

Thx

[tonimontanna]

You know that icon that says home in the right hand corner. That is it.

And its not just smb its smb:

[Hondaman900]

Thanks. I did as you suggested, and from the command line
smbclient //server/share
gives an "added interface" message and then "Connection to server failed". I doublechecked, and started Samba, but still got the error. Any ideas?

[michaelk]

Did you add a samba user and password? What kind of windows are you running?

Documentation can be found at www.samba.org