Home Network with Debian Sarge and XP

[schmity]

I am connected to the internet through a cable modem -> router -> 2 computers (1 Win XP PC and 1 Deb Sarge PC). I have been trying to install Samba on my Debian PC following the tutorial on this website. I installed Samba by apt-get install samba. I managed to delete the default /etc/samba/smb.conf file so I made one according to the tutorial on this site.

[global]
netbios name = linuxbox
server string = linuxbox
workgroup = SANDSTORM
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /usr/bin/smbpasswd
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
hostname lookups = yes
hosts equiv = /etc/hosts
hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 localhost
hosts deny = All
interfaces = lo eth0
bind interfaces only = yes
guest ok = yes
browse list = yes

[public]
path = /home/samba/public
comment = trial folder
guest ok = yes
create mode = 0766
browseable = yes
public = yes
read only = no


[brent]
comment = brents home directory
path = /home/brent
read only = no
valid users = brent root



From the command line I get the following error as the root user:

Linuxbox:/home/brent# smbclient -L localhost
Password:
tree connect failed: Call returned zero bytes (EOF)

[cuervo73]

in your smb.conf file, in the section [brent], remove the line:

valid users = brent root

and retry your smbclient cmd.

[schmity]

I commented the valid users = brent root, did an smbd stop, nmbd stop, smbd start, nmbd start (restart samba, right?). Then I did a smbclient -L localhost and I get the same results.

I figured out that I cannot ping my own machine (i.e. cannot ping linuxbox while at linuxbox).

Also, I don't think I have a static IP adress.