xp & redhat 9.0

[ADVSYSCO]

i need some help in networking and sharing files with win xp &redhat 9.0
xp is my server with 4 clients win98,win 2000.
i want to make redhat a client and share my d,e,drives so i can play all my mp3's on redhat iam using samba i configured it somewhat i see the xp box in nautilus i can open the d,e,drives i see all my mp3's but when i double click it won't let me play them i get an error xmultimedia couldn't play mp3 file.
i can see samba from my network places on xp but can not access redhat i get local host not accesible. can some one give some kind of example of what is supposed to be in samba config and what exactly is uncomment a string is it removing the ; in smb.conf?

[DMR]

1. Due to legal issues, Redhat has dropped mp3 support in it's stock product. You can get the mp3 rpm online; do a google search for it.

2. You need to give the Redhat box a unique hostname. "localhost" and it's associated 127.0.0.1 IP adddress are reserved for internal testing of a given machine's TCP/IP stack; using "localhost" as a hostname on a network will definitely confuse your machines.

3. Posting your current smb.conf file might help.

[bcdebusk]

I made the same mistake... setup my SAMBA server with machine name "localhost" and confused my windows workgroup.

Here is my current problem: I changed the machine name from "localhost.localdomain" to "linuxbox.localdomain". Windows sees the share from my XP machines, but it then tells me the "network path was not found".

Any ideas? It isn't a user authentication failure -- so what kind of configuration error would allow an XP network to SEE the share, but not find the network path?

[tcarradine]

bcdebusk, (i put this same reply on your other post)

if you are able to see it in My Network Places but are unable to connect ("Host not found") this is probably because your redhat system is running a firewall that is dening XP access to it. try disabling the firewall altogether while you are troubleshooting. even if thats not the problem, its a good idea to disable it anyway until you figure out whats causing problems on the server.

Timothy Carradine