XP Linux sharing problem

Hi, I wasn't sure whether to post here or on the Linux forum, my problem is as follows; I am

trying to share files between a Linux (Red Hat 9) box and a windows network mostly running

winxp home.

I can ftp, connect to mysql, ping, browse web pages etc but I cannot connect to the linux

machine to fileshare / map drive, and I can connect from the Linux machine to all windows

pc's no problem.

The configuration is as follows win firewall configured to accept connections from the Linux

ip address (static), Linux pc no firewall enabled at present.
Samba set to authentication mode user, encrypted passwords ip add is 192.168.0.5

localhost.localdomain alias localhost.

Windows can see the Linux machine in network explorer but I keep getting the following error

from windows when trying to file share;

\\Localhost is not accessible ............ you were not connected because a duplicate name

exists on the network..............

I would be content to use ftp from windows but I can not find the configuration file for the

ftp daemon running on Red Hat (vsftpd) to set directories permissions etc. The main problem

is that once I leave the gui enviroment I quickly get lost being a newbie to that os.

I'm sure this problem is quite straightforward but I'v trawled a fair bit on the net without

a solution so I'm here to trouble the pro's.


Thanks.