cannot access suse from windows xp

[tiktin]

I have a network with various double booted computers running suse pro 9.3, windows xp home, windows 98se and freespire. My problem is I cannot access the shared files on my suse computer from my computers running windows xp. I can access all the shared files on the windows xp computers from suse and I can access all the shared files on suse from my computers running windows 98se. It is only windows xp which is giving me this trouble. The suse computer shows up on "my network places" but when I try to access it I get the error message "Cannot access (suse computer name). You may not have permission to access this computer. The server service is not started. See your network administrator" (I am the network administrator). Any ideas? Thanks.

[tiktin]

I have it running both ways now. I haven't figured this out completely yet but it seems that if you set it up with Yast it creates a second smb.conf file apart from the one that shows up in the file system. This file is not showing any shares apart from the default ones even though there are a bunch in the original smb.conf file. So the next step is to create more shares in Yast. I guess the moral of the story is that when you set up a samba network in suse, do it with Yast, don't try to do it by hand.

[L4Linux]

I totally agree with the moral lesson! Either use YAST or do the configuration manually, not both.