Samba setup

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I am new using Redhat 7.2 and i am trying to configure Samba for the first time. I have three machines RH 7.2, NT SP5, and 2000 Server. I can see the linux machine on my NT box but cant seem to connect to it. I must have not configured the smb.conf file correctly. Also I can't see the Linux box at all on my 2000 box. If someone could give my some pointers to get it going. I need to get this working. Thanks.

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Here is some guidelines for samba configuration fro Linuxdoc.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-6.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-8.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-11.html

Hope this does help you do the trick. Post back.

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Thanks for the info.
Now it is prompting me for a password when i use the smbclient -L <host> command. Any password I type in is bad. With my NT box i get the prompt for the username and password. I am a little confused with the nobody/guest user in the smb.conf file. How exactly is that supposed to work? Do I need to make a change to /etc/passwd? Any help would be appreciated.