[NTLUG:Discuss] Novice Networker with the Samab Blues

[Terry Henderson]

On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 16:51:17 -0600, Andrew Brown
<dutch_fedora at earthlink.net> wrote:
> OK so I am a novice Network'er. I have a Windows XP Home box, Red Hat
> Fedora Core 2 Box, and a SuSe Laptop that I am trying to network. I am
> using Samba. Pulled the How To off the system, very handy, but somehow I
> am missing something. I have a Linksys Wireless B Router with the NAT
> set up connecting the systems to the internet.
> 
> I have Samba set up with the simplest settings /etc/samab/smb.conf from
> the How To as a start. Ran testparm and found everything is running
> fine. Pulled up the network on the XP box and found the Samba Server...
> hi'ever; I cannot get the share to pull up. I cannot seem to access the
> Samba Server at all; getting a error 53. I used fish:// and Smb:// on my
> Suse box in Konq' and could not find any shares. I am assuming that I am
> doing something silly (being a novice), or maybe it is the Router that
> is causing the problems. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> All just a learning process.
> 

Just guessing, but could be issue with dynamic IP addressing.  
Try ignoring your router's DHCP server and set static IPs to clients.