My computer is part of a home network of four computers.
When I was running Mandriva, the network was detected automatically and I had no problems accessing the files. However, with Fedora I am unable to find the files. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You need to install the Samba packages for Fedora. Try yum install samba.

it is installed. when i installed fedora 4 i installed every package that it came with, including samba

In which case, you will need to open and edit /etc/smb.conf-sample. After editing, save as /etc/smb.conf

I just installed Ubuntu and was wondering if this statement holds true for that as well.

the problem is that im not sure what i really need to edit. i have looked at a bunch of tutorials and such, and have changed my .conf file, however it still isn't working.

It should be. If not look at /etc/samba/smb.conf, else look for smb.conf using the find command.

the1wraith
are you facing any errors?

no...
maybe im just not editting the right info.
I want to access a windows home network (stored on someone else's computer that I have access to via windows right now and am connected to)

If someone could please tell me what to do to the .conf file that would be great, because so far I havn't had any luck with the tutorials.

Ooops, mistyped it there. Apologies. The correct path is /etc/samba. In it's unmodified state, the file is smb.conf-sample, after modifying it you should save it as smb.conf.

what i am wondering though, is what to modify it to....

Read through the file in a text editor. Change the relevant parts to match your network/needs. Each part is pretty well commented, so you aren't on your own.

Have you tried smbclient? It should instantly give you access to the files on your windows network.

smbclient? how does that work?

Looked into search engines yet?

yeah...ive spent a couple hours doing that.

i fixed it though, i had to make my IP 'static' that way it would be recognized by my firewall and let through. thanks for all your help though!

im having a related problem just a really fast question though, ive not been able to find the answer with google, so maybe you guys can help me

while messing around with settings, I changed my DNS host name, and now my computer cannot find the file when I login, giving me an error message.

this doens't impede me in any way that I have discovered, i would like to get rid of it though.

i believe the solution would be just to change it back to the default, which i havnt been able to find via google, so if someone running Fedora could look at their settings and tell me that would be awesome.