Hi, i've only been working with Linux for a while and its driving me crazy that I'm not really knowing what i'm doing...

I'm using Mandriva LE2005 and i'm just trying to browse to a windows machine on our network. Where do I do this? I'm used to just type the ip adress @ Start>run But this doesn't allow me to this. I can really not see any other place for local networking browesing. The machine is defnietley on the network because I can browse to a shared folder on this machine from any windows machine. So basicly I can get into the linux machine from windows but noet the other way around..

Help?

Windows uses the smb protocol for file sharing so consequently Linux has to implement this protocol in order to view the contents of a Windows filesystem.

This would be where the Samba project comes in (www.samba.org). You might already have the smb client for Mandriva installed by default or you will need to install it.

Once installed you mount smb filesystems like mounting any kinds of drives. Suggest you look at the samba webstie and google for smb mount as well for details of how you set this up.

Ok great, I've got Samba installed so that part's sorted out. But thanx, know I atleast know I need to look into the Samba mount points. I seem to getting somewhere now because from there I can see other computers on the workgroup..

You could try to access the share by opening up a koqueror then
putting an address in as

smb://windows_pc_name or use smb://ip address this would allow you
to browse the shared files on the Windows machines

Great!! This is what i've been looking for the whole time!! And it actually works!! Thanx alot!! I'm one step closer to switch over to Linux!!