Hello.

I have my music collection stored in /home/Chris/Music and another music collection on another (Windows XP) machine stored in a shared folder in C:\Documents and Settings\Liz\Desktop\Shared, or smb://lol/Shared.
I have my Windows machine set to a workgroup called Chris and the machine's 'name', as you can see, is "lol".

I want to make it so Apollon, Amarok and other music/filesharing softwares on my machine can access the WinXP shared folder and be able to save files to it when I download them.
I.e. I want my entire music collection on the Windows XP machine, and I want Apollon to be able to be able to use the Windows XP folder as its download folder.

In the longer term I also want to be able to access shared folders on my linux box from my Windows machine.

Are these things possible?

Thanks!

Hi and welcome to LQ. What you need to do is look into a service called samba. It enables file and print sharing between Windows and Linux machines.

Thanks for the welcome!

Yes I have Samba, but I was looking into how I would go about configuring programs like Apollon to save downloaded files onto a folder on a different computer (the Windows one) so I can have my entire music collection on one computer.
Possibly by somehow 'linking' a folder on the Linux box to my shared music folder on the Window$ box, so Linux treats it as the same folder...?

I must apologise for my noobish ways, I realise I probably am talking complete gibberish.

C'est possible? lol

Any help would greatly appreciated.
Make a nub happy!