Linux And Win2000 Networking

ganja_man9999 · 02-22-2005, 10:50 AM

i am running fedora core 3on a machine and win2k the linux m/c can see and accress the internet and it can also see the network but as soon as u try and accress the pcs on the network all i get is the following message

the folder contents could not be displayed

you do not have the permissions nessary to veiw the contents of "windows network:*****".

previous to fedora i was running red hat and that accessed the pcs on the network fine

Micro420 · 02-22-2005, 04:19 PM

This is a very broad and general question so there could be many things wrong with it.

1) do you have samba running? I use smb4k and it makes networking Linux and Windows very simple.
2) did you add users/groups in your Linux and Windows?
3) are your folders set to share (note that by default you cannot share your /home directory)?

Well, those are the things that come to my mind.

ganja_man9999 · 02-24-2005, 02:28 PM

ok want i meant was is that i want to access the windows machine from the linux machine to access a folder on the windows machine
and put it on the linux machine and the error report is what the linux machine is throwing up i hope this has helped narrow the subject many thanks

jiml8 · 02-24-2005, 07:39 PM

You need to have the user names set up on the linux box to match accounts on the Win2K boxes.

Scroto · 02-25-2005, 05:40 AM

If you cant get the user names set up on the linux box properly, i have found you can use a program such as linneigborhood to mount the shared folders as it prompts you for your user name and password.
I get the same error as you if i try to access my windows pc using Nautilus and the command smb://*********** but i am able to access my shared files using linneighborhood.