I have two systems set up here at home. I have my Fedora computer and my wife has her XP system.

We're connected through a D-LINK DI-604 router.

From my fedora box I can see her computer and dig around in al her files with no problems at all.

When I'm on her XP Pro and try and look in Network neighborhood my linux box doesn't show up.

Iknow this has to be an easy fix and to tell you the truth this is the first place I've turned to for help.

I assure you I'll also go take a look at the man pages and do a tad bit more research as I await with baited breath your response to my questions.


thanks
Doug

You will need to install and configure samba:
http://www.samba.org

At least now when I go look at her "My Entire Network" I see Microsoft Windows Network and then"My Group, I click on that and see "Samba server" (LocalHost).... when I click on that I get the
//localhost is not accessabl. You might not have premission to use this network resource.
Contact your administrator of this server to find out if you have access premission

You were not conected because a duplicate name exsits on the network. Go to system in the control panel to change the computer name and try again.

I did change the name and I still get this error.
HMMMmmmm??

Try setting the "netbios name" parameter in smb.conf and restart samba.

Try setting the "netbios name" parameter in smb.conf and restart samba.


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HMMmmmm, how does one do that?

Edit the /etc/smb.conf file and add a line in the global section:
netbios name = anyname

Change anyname to something of your choice. To restart samba in a console window (as root) type in the following command:
service smb restart

Boy do I remember this problem and I spent months trying to fix it through all type of configuration files and nothing worked!!! I have Red Hat 9 but I am pretty sure its the same problem as I had the exact same errors you are having.

You have to turn off your firewall on the linux computer. Thats it. Now how do you do that? That I dont remember as I got so frustrated with linux I quit but now Microsoft drove me back again. I remember using the iptables command but thats about it. As soon as this one Unix tech told me how to do that--I had no problems looking at files in XP pro.

Now if anyone can tell me how to setup a FTP server on Red Hat in kindergardner like fashion--I would be exstatic.

Mosteal

I ahd that problem before of not being able to see my hunnys computer files on her XP machine. It did turn out to be a firewall active on Linux,fedora, I turned it off and I had no problems at al then seeing her files.

Since I have a router that's acting as the firewall I wasn't worried about disabling the fedora one.

The real issue is from My wifes..."shannon" XP computer I can't see my Fedora box.

I'll go back in and follow those directions in a little bit. Right now I'm installing Suse 9.2 on another drive.

Thanks for your help
Doug

The key is probably your smb.conf file. I had the same problem before. I realized the real problem was that WinXP seems to be expecting a very basic Samba share, but Samba's default configuration is a bit more secure than Windows', so Windows has some trouble figuring out it needs to ask for a password and stuff. I fixed it by getting rid of basic security settings, which is fine since it's just a home network. Here's a few settings I needed to change.
You'll also have to add whatever shares you want in that file too, and give them appropriate permissions.