Cant grab files from my other computer?
 

OK first off I am VERY new to linux (had it about a week) and I am running Mandrake 9.1. I have finally afer 3 days got my Nvidia driver situation straightened out and now my mission is to be able to network over to my wifes computer and grab some files I copied over there from my Windows desktop. The only program I can find that is loaded on here is LinNeighborhood and it see's my wifes computer fine and when I try to open her C: drive it asked me to mount it and I dont quite understand what that means. Someone please help.

mount -t smbfs //compname//sharename /mnt/hd -o username=name,password=password

that "mounts" the windows share at /mnt/hd in your directory tree, in any file program you can then go there and copy files.

mount mounts, -t smbfs chooses samba filesystem, or windows network share in other words. //compname/sharename is computer name and what share you want, /mnt/hd is where to access the data on your filesystem. -o username=name,password=password will take care of login

with exception of -o all of these are required, username often is to. password is optional and you will be prompted if needed.

I would go for:
SSH running on Linux.
Install PuTTY on Windows. Use the PuTTY scp program to copy files from Windows to Linux.

Thank you guys, I finally figured it out! I appreciate the speedy and helpfull responses!