Connecting to existing windows network.

dennqis · 12-22-2002, 09:12 PM

OK. First things first, I have only been using Linux for about a week so keep that in mind. I am dual-booting windowsXP and RedHat 8 and i need some help using linux to connect to the existing network. I am connected to the internet through another computer (you could say the server), and that works ok. I need to know how to set it up to see shared files and folders on my other computers
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Thankx Brian

Bogdan · 12-23-2002, 01:30 AM

You have to read about Samba, maybe on www.ldp.org or on www.samba.org

neverender · 02-01-2003, 12:47 AM

this sucks i hate linux, you have to read up on everything. its freakin stupid. why can these idiots make anything simple.... such as maybe.... double clicking an icon???

i dont want to have to compile and configuere and read a stupid man page for every freakin program i use. i hope windows buys redhat out or something. maybe that would put an end to this madness

guanyu · 02-01-2003, 12:57 AM

neverender,
Linux is server based not workstation. If you like icon go for windows platform. Everything is icon, the user can simply install and modify the configuration. It's very difficult for administrator. you got it?

abd_bela · 02-01-2003, 04:52 AM

ok,

these other computer run windows or linux ?
with linux you have several possibilies ( telnet to work on it , ftp to get , ot http) providing that the remote machine is a server or also nfs in this last case you mount the directory and with mouse you can copy from one machine to another.

for the windows , the samba is required, the samba client is ibnstalled by default, but samba server must run on one machine , and as a client you can access to any connected machine.

hope this help you

Electro · 02-02-2003, 12:55 AM

Look at
http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesys...rom_Linux.html

LINUX doesn't refresh its mounted devices so you may want to learn perl or understand how scheduling works. You can then refresh the shared folders on the server every 30 seconds or any time period that you want.

I have been reading LINUX Complete (Second Edition) by SYBEX. It explains how to setup SAMBA as well as many other LINUX features with out the jargon for 19 US dollars. (ISBN 0-7821-4036-X)