Hi,

I'm new to Linux. I set up a network between a Win2K machine
and a Linux Mandrake 8.2 machine using Samba. In the Network Neighborhood of my Win machine, I can see my Samba server, but now I want to see my Win2K machine in my Linux machine. What do I have to do to make this work? (when I click on "Local network" in Konquerer, I get this message: can't find the host localhost")

Thanks
Tom

Unfortunately, I don't know much about Konqueror, or even what distribution it runs on. Would you be willing to use the command line? The way I add Win2K shares to Linux is by using the smbmount command.

For example, say you have a drive share on Windows named "windata", and the machine name is "winxp1" You connect your Linux box by doing the following:

Make an empty directory somewhere as root, such as:

/winbox

Use the smbmount command:

smbmount //winxp1/windata /winbox -o rw,username=<user>

There are many many options, which you may need to use, such as options to enter a username and password. Those are placed in a comma separated list after the '-o' switch. Type 'man smbmount' for more options.

There are ways to make it so that you automatically mount shares from other machines on demand (automount) or on boot (fstab) but I won't go into that.

I'm not very good at this stuff anyway. I probably have my syntax all messed up. Good Luck!