>You will need 2 NIC cards with Samba installed on the linux box. Never tried serial cable. I did get Linux redhat 6.5 and windows NT server to see each other along with all the other computers on the network, but couldn't get Linux to see any windows machines. If anyone knows how let me know.
>www.samba.org for more info.

Did you setup a master browser with Samba?
You have to make sure and set your OS level to something higher than 33. Just set it to 256 to be safe. That way, Samba will win the Browser elections over NT.
What did you use to try and see the other machines? Did you wait at least 45 seconds for the browse list to populate?
What version of Samba were you running?

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