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I need to know how to do this for a complete Linux Newbie.
I am using a plain switch, not a router.
Do I need to disable a firewall on SuSE, if so, where?
Please explain in GUI terms if possible.
Thank you.
You WILL be better for this if you work it out because you will learn a lot about how Linux thinks. I can tell you this much:
You will need to either disable the firewall (bad)
or
You will need to allow ports 137,138,139,444 and set the hosts.allow file to the IP address of the client (windows) computer (good).
you can download and install "gnosamba" a GUI frontend for samba.
also for using samba drives in windows machines you can try "LinNeighborhood"
for "gnosamba" try to find it at rpm.pbone.net according to your distribution
for LinNeighborhood, you can find it in suse 8.2 cd's (run YaST and choose Install/Remove Software. when it opens, Search for LinNeighborhood.
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