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Re: [LUG] re networking for dummies

 

On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 13:45 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:35:15 +0000
> viv <viv.griffin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I have just reinstalled one of my machines with Kubuntu 6.10 and am
> > very happy with it except the networking is not working.
> 
> Networking with what? Windows or the internet generally?


Thanks Neil. I just have 2 machines - the other is Ubuntu 6.06

> 
> > I just want to
> > set up a few shares but, cannot even see local shares currently or the
> > local workgroup.
> 
> Definitely sounds like Windows - so the inevitable question, have you
> installed Samba?


Yes - samba is installed.
> 

> If so, check the Samba documentation for things like whether to enable
> or disable encrypted passwords depending on which flavour of Windows is
> in use.
> 

> I have access to the internet through a router on both machines. That is working 
> fine.
> 

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