filesharing between Linux and XP

stilez · 03-04-2004, 09:07 AM

hi,
I'm pretty much a newbie, but have managed to use Samba over a Network to se whats on my PC with XP. I have used an address like smb:/62.254.147.72/ezekiel/c/ to see whats on my C drive, but I can't actually open/use or view the files. I also haven't a clue how to get my XP machine seeing the linux one!

any ideas? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

Peacedog · 03-04-2004, 10:50 AM

you'll need to create users, on both the samba side and the windows side. have a read here.

http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/server.html

and here

http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/client.html

stilez · 03-04-2004, 12:32 PM

Aha!

Sadly, as a beginner, I didn't have a clue how to do that stuff. Tried another couple of HOWTOs, but couldn't work them out either

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Peacedog · 03-04-2004, 12:46 PM

the links above are pretty straight forward, just follow the steps, you should have no major problems.
good luck.

stilez · 03-05-2004, 03:47 AM

I have given it a good go on two HOWTOs, but they assume you already have a good knowledge of networking and basic linux commands, which I don't yet.

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Peacedog · 03-05-2004, 06:30 AM

here are a few more links to help you w/that.

basic networking

http://www.netfilter.org/documentati...entation-howto

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/

basic linux commands

http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/lnag_commands.html

that should get you going.
good luck.