and probably vice versa, but not neccesarily right away...

Regarldess, I need samba running on the windows box in order to accomplish this right?

Samba is actually the SMB protocall. Its the same thing windows uses to share directories.

So really all you'll need to do is setup the share on that box and do the following.

create a mount point on the linux box. A mount point is just a directory, it can be anywhere you want, but the standard is to make it in the /mnt dirctory.

now do smbmount //(Computer name or IP)/(Shared Directory) /(Directory to mount point) -o username=(username to access the share),password=(password for the share)

at that point you should be able to read and write to the share via that directory

To just read a XP share you just need to mount the shared drive using smbmount command.(You need to have smbfs)

$ smbmount //<server>/<shared folder> /mnt/<dir>

where <server> is ur windows machine IP or machine name
<shared folder> is the folder u want to mount
<dir> should exist on your linux machine.

To be able to write to the shared folder depends on if you have NTFS write support in your kernel. Best would be to get the latest kernel(2.6.4?) which has NTFS write support.


Hope that helps

that helps a TON thanks...

question regarding that, where would i put that command so i do not need to run it every time? do i just need to create a quick script or something to the like?

you can put it in your /etc/fstab file
the problem with that is, you might have to put in your password as well, which is not advisable as anybody can read it.

Hello, I have tried this and it works !! Im 1/3 happy, cause now I want to easily read files on the Win box from the Linux box, using samba, which is the Vice Versa thing of the solution here. How do I do this ??

Good comment about NTFS, I have a NTFS formatted disk in my Linux box, and I cant write on it, only read. Is there an alternative to SAFELY writing from a Linux box onto a NTFS formatted hard drive?

2 questions, first one is more important and urgent to me

I don't believe thats true for the SMB protocall. I've sucessfully had SMB write to NTFS shares without any NTFS support built into the kernel. You have to remember that the linux machine is actually writing to that folder, the windows machine is.

Install samba in your linux machine.
You would then need to create users (using smbpasswd) who would access the linux box from windows.

once it has been installed and configured, you can then see the linux box in your network. Clicking it from your windows explorer will prompt u for samba username password.

some helpfull links
http://www.linuxorbit.com/howto/sambahowto.php3 (really well explained)
http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/lnag_...ml#samba_setup

man i get so lost with all this...

i've been using linneighborhood cuz it makes it alot eaiser...

so here's my issue

on linux (mdk10)
i can see all my windows shares, and i have the ones i want mounted and can read them
i can send stuff to my windows machine, as long as the folder already exists, but i cannot create a folder, or send over a folder full of stuff
i have 2 places listed in linneighborhood - 1 mdkhost, 1 mshome under mdkhost i have the shared folder on my linux box, under the mshome are all my windows shares

on windows
i do not see the linux box