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The file or folder smb://locallinux/shared does not exist.

I am trying to share a folder on FC4 with an winXP machine. I get a  "network path not found" when I try to connect to the folder (I see the Linux machine in Network Neighborhood.)

When I am in konquerer I can see the samba shares icon under network folders and I can connect to any of the windows machines just fine, but when I try to connect to the linux machine I get the "The file or folder smb://locallinux/shared does not exist." error.

Any help on troubleshooting would be appreciated.

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james
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I didn't put that I had turned off both the windows and linux firewalls.  Why is linux saying the path is not valid? - Is it a lack of permission?
did you configure locallinux as host in /etc/hosts or your NS? check with
  nslookup locallinux

did you setup y folder shared in you Samba configuration? check with
  smbclient -L locallinux
How do I configure the host? I put in locallinux in the DNS tab of the network configuration.

Here is the result of the nslookup
[root@locallinux etc]# nslookup locallinux
Server:         199.45.32.40
Address:        199.45.32.40#53

** server can't find locallinux: NXDOMAIN

[root@locallinux etc]#
assuming that you also have not configured locallinux in /etc/hosts (and most likely have not configured /etc/resolv.conf), the question is: why do you use a hostname (locallinux in your example) which is unknow to your system?
When I set up the box the host was default localhost.localdomain, but I later found out that this was reserved by Windows and thought by going to the network configuration and changing the host name to locallinux that it would change it where needed. I guess I was wrong.
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I haven't time to play with linux box until this holiday weekend.  I ended up reinstalling the OS and setting the host name from the beginning.  I finally got all three parts (host name, share, and firewall config) working and now have a file server for my home!

Thanks for taking the time to explain what needed to be...