Originally Posted by Keef
Setting up Samba to allow the machines to see each other and swap files around needed some geek-code to be entered into various files in the root directory (smb.conf, bootmisc.sh, /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules). I won't tell you how long it took to find out that those were the ones to edit, or exactly what geekery to put in.
Keef, I'd like to believe you're not a troll, but it's getting harder.
I've set up Samba manually lots of times and never had to edit anything but smb.conf
"bootmisc.sh, /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules"
udev provides a dynamic device directory containing only the files for actually present devices. It creates or removes device node files usually located in the /dev/ directory, or it renames network interfaces.
udev has nothing to do with Samba
Why do I get this feeling that you're going to say, "Well, I dunno, but Samba didn't work for me until I did it".
In one of your other posts you also had all sorts of obscure references that I couldn't for the life of me see had to do with your "difficulties".
"Debian on the Linux machine, hard-wired to the network, can now see the Laser printer but not the inkjet. It took me several months to get that far."
I don't know what distro you're using (except that it appears to be Debian based) but
several months?
If something took me several months I'd have chucked it out long before.
Bits of many Linux distros don't always work "out of the box" - we've already established that. But your experiences seem to verge on the bizarre.