How to connect Linux To Win XP

shivang · 08-16-2008, 05:04 AM

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...

cybernet4 · 08-16-2008, 05:24 AM

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

have fun reading

Sunfist · 08-17-2008, 10:10 AM

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.

Uxinn · 08-17-2008, 01:41 PM

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

Uxinn