RH 9 Probs

[Nikumba]

How do I browse the network in RH 9, we have 2 windows 200 servers and 1 RH 9 server, neither the windows or the linux server can see the other OS.

Any ideas?

Nikumba

[kanezfan]

For the windows boxes to see the linux box in network neighborhood, you have to configure samba on the linux box. for the linux box to access windows shares, you have to use smbclient. windows uses a protocol called SMB to talk to each other. when M$ wouldn't release the specs on SMB, the SAMBA project was formed to reverse engineer SMB so other OSs (namely linux) would be able to interact with windows machines.

[Nikumba]

So how do I configure samba and the sambaclinet?

Nikumba

[kanezfan]

www.samba.org is a good place to start, there's probably some kind of GUI editor for samba in red hat to square you away though.

[Ageek]

There are tools available called SWAT and Webmin. Webmin typically is available with RH 9.0 and is a basic do-it-all generalists config GUI that supplements the software management and services control in RH. SWAT some like better more specifically for Samba, but most config it in the console.

Trying to go to https://127.0.0.1:10000/ in a browser or Konqueror should get you webmin's login and you login as root with root password.

I would also recommend getting the docs iso or just the pdf files set for RH 9.0. They fill 2 3" notebooks here. A lot of what they cover also helps with Mandrake.

http://rpmfind.net/
and
http://www.google.com/linux/
will also be helpful for finding things.

Good Luck

John Danielson.