I was messing with Samba, and I can''t really get anywhere (RH 9). I have it set up so a workgroup shows up in the Network Neighborhood(or whatever they call it in XP now, you know what I mean). The problem is, I can''t actually go inside the workgroup. It says that the workgroup is not accessible and permissions might not be set correctly. I have no clue what I''m doing wrong, or even what I''m doing to begin with. What I would like is for it to have a seperate workgroup, and in there I could click on the computer, and then I could see shared drives and things (all totally open, no passwords, at least on the LAN/intranet).

Samba might not let you share drives without any passwords.
It''s a little easy to mount a samba share than it is to export a mount point via samba.

Go to your Windows PC, and share a drive with it. Figure out how to make the linux machine mount it, before trying to make Windows map a drive to the linux machine.

check out SWAT (samba web adminstration t-something? tool?) you can conigure your samba server over the web, its really nice

samba will let you have shares w/o encrypted passwords, however, windows xp will not connect to a share that does not encrypt passwords unless you disable that in the registry somewhere

the default SWAT config enables a share of each user''s home directory, the only config i had to do was enable encrypted passwords and make the shares browsable, cuz i like it that way.