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Message from Steven
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Marcelo Campos wrote:
>
> I have no error messages, the BL3 machine is not "saw" 
> by the other Windows machines in the same network 

Are you sure your samba process is alive?
I think the Slackware samba package is designed 
to activate samba via inetd.  If that is the 
case, you will need inetd and you will probably 
need to edit the inetd configuration files.

inetd is part of the Slackware network foundation 
package (tcpip1).  It waits for incoming requests 
for service and then activates the appropriate 
server (telnetd, ftpd, samba, whatever).  inetd 
requires complicated configuration (including 
the authentication files).

BL3 is designed to be a client, not a server.
It does not provide an appropriate foundation
to run servers.  Yes, it is possible to modify 
BL3 to run servers, but it will be difficult.  
If you want to run servers, I recommend you use 
BL2, Slackware or a completely different version 
of Linux.  Unlike BL3, most Linux distributions 
have a foundation suitable for running servers.

Cheers,
Steven