Samba Woes

[Wolverine]

Hi guys & gals

Ok, i hope i can make this as short & sweet as possible;

RH 8.0
Samba installed
edited smb.conf file
useradd "fred"
smbpasswd -a fred
Samba services restarted

My problem is that i cannot browse my linux machine from another M$ machine although i can see the machine in Network Neighbourhood.
I also would like to access M$ shared folders on other machines from my linux box , and use the command:" mount -t smb -o username=fred,password=fred //192.1.1.1/sharedfolder " but no luck there either. What am i doing wrong?

All i would like to do is browse shared folders on my network, and let certain machines browse my linux box. *sigh*

Have a great day.

[pbharris]

hello,
to let the linux machine browse MS windows machines i use this in my /etc/fstab
//sparches/c /net/sparches smbfs username=pbharris,password=thisisabadpassword,noau to 0 0

to enable MSwindows machines to access my linux computer i sue this, i am guessing that you don't have any directories that anyone can access.

# Global parameters
        workgroup = HARRIS
        server string = Samba Server
        security = USER
        log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
        max log size = 50
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY
        dns proxy = No
        guest account = guest
        print command = lpr -r -P%p %s
        lpq command = lpq -P%p
        lprm command = lprm -P%p %j
        encrypt passwords = yes
        #printcap name = lpstat
        #printing = cups

[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        path = /home
        writeable = yes

[printers]
        comment = All Printers
        path = /var/spool/samba
        print ok = Yes
        browseable = No

[tmp]
        comment = Temporary stuff
        path = /tmp
        guest ok = Yes

[lp]
        comment = Printer
        path = /var/spool/samba
        read only = No
        guest ok = Yes
        print ok = Yes
        printer name = lp
        oplocks = No
        share modes = No


[music]
        path = /oggs
        guest ok = Yes
        read only = Yes

[cdrom]
        path = /mnt/cdrom
        guest ok = Yes
        read only = Yes

another thing i did was add a user that also has an acocunt on the linux box, e.g.
smbadder pbharrisb

samba will prompt for a password and then the person logging in on the mswindows machine will be mapped to the linux user, in this example pb is the ms windows user mapped to the linux user pbharris. so, when pb logs onto the network he will be mapped to the user pbharris on the linux machine.