How to connect Linux To Win XP
 

hey i am using Fedora 9 and want to know whether i can connect to any Windows system in the Local Area Network(LAN) from my system??
i have heard of samba but not getting how to do it...:confused:

http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:Samba
http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/basicnetworking.shtml
http://news.samba.org/users/samba_fedora_howto/
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you..._with_fedora_7


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I dont know about Fedora as I am running Ubuntu, but I didnt have to do anything other than tell Linux to lookon the network for other computers. It found both of the other two computers on my network. I had to set up a shared folder on them (the winxp machines)for shared files but that was it.

Well samba will help windows to connect to linux, but not help linux connect to windows.
But linux machines mount windows share's the same way they mount samba shares ( using smbfs )

Example:
Share on WinXP called stuff.
mkdir -p /mnt/stuff
mount -t smbfs -o username=uxinn,password=secret //winxp/stuff /mnt/test
this will mount the share stuff as /mnt/test


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