Help please

[Ian W. Wright <nospam [at] iw63.demon.co.uk>]

Ok, I give up, I need help!
I am trying to network my computers - 1 windows 95 box, 2 windows 98
ones and a RedHat linux 5.2 one. I have got as far as getting the
windows ones to talk to each other OK and the linux one appearing in the
'network neighbourhood' window of the windows machines. Now I have hit
the problem of getting linux to talk to windows and I am very confused.
I have Samba installed and running and I have tried to configure it as
well as I can. The two problems I now have are:

1. When I click on the linux computer's icon in the 'network
neighbourhood' window, I get a message box echoing the linux machine's
name and asking for a password - but I haven't set any passwords on the
linux box other than the initial logon one. As I can't seem to find any
relevant documentation and can't even decide whether the password it is
looking for should be in linux, network setup or Samba, can anyone
please offer any help?

2. I don't know how to look at things on the windows box from the linux
one. A friend in Norway suggested that I needed to use a script based on
a command called 'smbmount' but I don't seem to have any such command
available on my computer and there is no 'man' entry of that name.
Again, can anyone help or point me towards relevant and understandable
documentation please?

If you can help, would you please try to do so in plain English as I
seem to be spending half my time looking up the meaning of words in the
HOWTOs and man's which seem to have an entirely different meaning in
'computerese' to their normal english meanings and similarly for the
mnemonics everyone seems to delight in using. This is taking me back to
the days when I used assembler on 6502 and Z80 chips - it was hard then
but now, almost 40 years on, it is almost impossible!! ;o)

Thanks,

Ian
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