samba server

i m new to linux and i need help establishing a samba server for file sharing.
i m using ubuntu 6.10 server on virtual pc 2007, i follow the guide in this web site to setup the samba but i cannot see or connect to the server, the workgroup/domain however did exist in my network.

please help me

 

how about posting your smb.conf file?

 

this is my smb.conf after i use a actual pc to do the samba and i still cant see my server from another xp pc. do i need to make them the same workgroup or something like that?

View attachment smb.conf.txt

 

another things is that i cant ping the server from xp or ping xp from server, do i have connection problem with the server?

 

That's a problem. Are both systems in the same subnet? Do you use some kind of firewall that blocks pings? What about the ports 137 - 139, are they accessible?

 

Can you post the output of

Code:

ifconfig

in your linux box and

Code:

ipconfig

in your windows box