To see your shared resources on your Linux computer from Network Neighborhood, you will have to set up a Samba/SMB server.

First you will have to download the SAMBA files. To can obtain these from the Samba Home Page.

Then configure the Samba Server, that is the one that you will need in order for your Windows 95/98 machines to view and access shared resources on your Linux machine, you will need to configure the /etc/smb.conf or /etc/samba/smb.conf (for Red Hat) file. This is every simple and descriptions are all inside the file.

Then make an account using useradd account name and change the password using passwd account name. Remembering that this must be done as root.

Then run testparm to check that the smb.conf file is configured correctly.

Next, run smbpasswd -a account name you're ready to start up Samba. To start it up, type:
smbd -D
nmbd -D
or /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start for Red Hat users.

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