I have a laptop running windows xp pro and my desktop that runs fedora core 3. I was wondering if I would be able to access my linux files on my laptop through the network. I haven't really done much with mounting linux to windows, so I'm not sure how this can be done or if it can be done. I would assume there is some program that might do this, although I can't find one.

If there is some link someone can give on where I can read up on this, that would be excellent. I'm also not sure if this is the right forum to ask this in. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

Samba!

http://www.samba.org/

official howto: http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/...TO-Collection/

A GUI: smb4k

Thanks a ton. Looks like I have some reading to do.

yes samba really is the way to go, but for a short dirty, kind of slow, way to connect to your linux system and see, copy, or write files to your linux box from windows download and install the 2 following programs. both are free:

putty

winSCP

google for them and install them. putty is a SSH tool for windows to use to connect to your linux box via the CLI (command line interface). winSCP is a copy program (scp secure copy) that looks and feels a lot like cuteFTP. if you can use windows explorer to copy and move files around, then you can use winSCP. it will be slower because of the encryption but on a LAN you will hardly notice the difference unless you are tyring to run an application or watch a movie from linux to windows that way.

if you are going to be doing more then just browsing or moving small files around, then you will have to set up SAMBA.

Yeah, I mean I already use putty and once in a while Xwin to run things on my linux box remotely, I just kinda want to set up my linux box as a file share and retrieve most of my documents easily on my laptop.

then samba is the only way to go for you.