samba sucks

[EscapeCharacter]

im at my wits end here samba compiled and installed no problem and starts up just fine it shows up in netstat and with ps, it is on and seems to be working. even though netbios-ns on port 137 shows up in netstat i cant telnet to that port and the same goes for netbios-dgm on port 138. i have never been able to get samba running and its driving me crazy. im going to post my smb.conf i bet im missing a semi-colon or something.

[global]
workgroup = HOME
netbios name = ESCAPE
security = SHARE
encrypt passwords = Yes
update encrypted = Yes
root directory = /home/samba
log file = /var/log/samba-log.%m
announce as = win95
wins support = no
lock directory = /var/lock/samba
hosts allow = all
preferred master = no
[public]
path = /home/samba
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = yes

[root]
allow hosts= 192.168.1.100
valid users= liam
writable = yes
force group = root
path = /
force user = root
[c]
path = /home/samba/c
writeable = Yes
inherit permissions = Yes
guest ok = Yes

also i cannot connect locally from linux either i get
root@MonsterBash:/etc# smbclient //escape/c -I 192.168.1.105
added interface ip=192.168.1.105 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
read_socket_with_timeout: timeout read. read error = Broken pipe.
session request to ESCAPE failed (code 0)
read_socket_with_timeout: timeout read. read error = Broken pipe.
session request to *SMBSERVER failed (code 0)

and in windows the computer shows up but says \\escape is not accessible the network path was not found. what am i doing wrong?
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I like source it never *****es about dependencies
--Escchr 2000

[This message has been edited by EscapeCharacter (edited 08 October 2000).]