Samba and Windows XP question.

Ordinary12 · 05-12-2007, 02:59 PM

I have a question about Networking and Samba. I have FC6 on my laptop and Windows XP on my desktop. I have Samba setup on my laptop and I finally got it working so I could access the shared folder from Windows. I took the laptop over to my friends house yesterday and connected it to his router. I thought I needed to setup a local network using a private I.P. scheme but his computer automatically saw my shared folder with out having to do anything extra for it. Why did this happen? I have my network setup for dynamic.

enigma_0Z · 05-12-2007, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Ordinary12

I have a question about Networking and Samba. I have FC6 on my laptop and Windows XP on my desktop. I have Samba setup on my laptop and I finally got it working so I could access the shared folder from Windows. I took the laptop over to my friends house yesterday and connected it to his router. I thought I needed to setup a local network using a private I.P. scheme but his computer automatically saw my shared folder with out having to do anything extra for it. Why did this happen? I have my network setup for dynamic.

What I've bolded is why. His network probably is also dynamic, so when you connected to his network, you automatically got a correct IP address, and since samba was already running on his computer, it was a simple matter of just going there.

Ordinary12 · 05-12-2007, 03:17 PM

I still don't understand. His desktop was running Windows XP while mine is running FC6 with Samba setup to share a folder. In Windows XP you usually need to setup a private lan in order to see every computer on the network. Are you saying that since my laptop was setup as dynamic it was able to pick a I.P. on a private lan that wasn't created yet? Here's another question for you.

newbe45 · 05-13-2007, 04:58 PM

If you are set up to be dynamic you will be automatically setup to the network you are connecting to. Your friend all ready had his private LAN running and set up as dynamic, which is very common on small home networks. So when you plugged your computer in it dynamically became part of his network.

billymayday · 05-13-2007, 09:54 PM

Do you use the defaul MSHOME as a network name?

Ordinary12 · 05-16-2007, 09:47 AM

I setup a network name called "GAMES" on my Windows XP computer but its "MSHOME" on my Fedora laptop. It still works great for some reason. I guess that's all that really matters.