Hello,

I'm very new at using Linux. I switched over from Windows to Linux (Fedora Core) in order to get some experience in it. I'm having a bit of a problem.

My second computer is Windows based. I am trying to be able to view it so I can grab files from a shared drive. The problem is, either I don't know how to really do it, or I'm looking in the wrong place.

When I bring up Network Servers, I see a place for Windows Network. When I open it up, though, I find nothing. Under Network Configuration, under hosts, I have set up the host I thought it would be with the following settings:

IP: 192.168.1.1001
Name: TROTLC1
Aliases: Jennie

What am I missing?

I must admit that I'm not anywhere near an expert on networking GNU/Linux with w32 the way it sounds like you're trying. But I *think* that Samba (client) is what you want.

hth --Jonas

Here's what I do for slackware

1. Check that samba is installed using find:
# find / name smbd print

2. Use testparm to check smb.conf file for errors. If there is not smb.conf file there, either copy smb.confsample to smb.conf (# cp smb.confsample smb.conf) or create a new one: (/etc/samba/smb.conf)
ex. workgroup = MYGROUP
[home]
guest ok = no
read only = no

3. To make samba start automatically at boot you must make samba run control file executable:
# chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.samba (makes it rwxrxrx)

4. Run smbstatus to check the status of samba. This will echo samba version, etc if all is ok.
# smbstatus

5. You need to add a samba user to be able to access files, This must be a system user already.
# smbpasswd a (username) to add a samba user.
# smbpasswd x (username) to remove samba user.

6. Run smbclient to make sure that your users can access the samba server.
# smbclient L (servername) U (username) this will display shares, groups, etc.

7. Run nmblookup to check the network connectivity
# nmblookup (servername) you should receive the ip address of the server.
# nmblookup d 2 “*” to see entire networ

One problem I seen is an invalid IP address (192.168.1.1001). None of the 4 values can be higher than 255 because it's only represented by 8 bit bytes.

http://roofrabbit.com/vsamba.html

The extra 0 at the end is a typo...

I have Samba installed using Webmin :S