How to connect to a win2000 pc
 

How do you connect to a Windows 2000 machine with Linux? I'm using Fedora Core 2.
I can see all the machines on the Windows Network but cant connect to them. I can only connect to the Windows 98 machines. What I'm i doing wrong?

Thanks.

Take a look at these:

http://www.linuxorbit.com/howto/sambahowto.php3
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html
http://www.skippy.net/linux/2000/smb-howto.html
http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/
http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/How...eway-HOWTO.html

Hope it helps.

as you search those howto's remember that win2k and winnt (winxp for that matter) use encrypted passwords and need usernames to access shares whereas win98/95/me just allowed any old schmuck to dive into their shares. I never exactly got the sharing authentication going on with winxp machines on my home network, so I just removed passwords on those computers and then I was able to access them with just a username in the url smb://USERNAME:@WORKGROUP/COMPUTER/SHARE

The part after the : is for a password, but like I said I could never get the passwords to authenticate. I think linux was sending it plain text or something, but you could always remove the passwords from your user accounts or enable the guest account and use that. Just a couple options, you sure have enough reading to help you out the rest of the way, but at least now you know what it is you are looking for.