I would like my linux box to see my windows network, I have RH 8 setup, installed as a server, so samba is installed.

What do I have to do now?

You have to write a configuration file for Samba. I believe that the default path is:

/etc/samba/smb.conf

There is probably a default config file there already, but you would be better off to start from scratch and write one of your own. There is a book that is printed online on the subject. It's a bit old, but most of the commands are still the same. It should work just fine.

If you don't want to set it up or can't figure it out, I'd love to help. I'm still learning about Samba, but of the Linux-related things I've encountered so far, it's the one I've come the closest to master. Send me an email if you need help.

After you set up the smb.conf file, you'll have to start adding passwords to your password file using smbpasswd.

After rereading your post, I think my answer might have been a bit off-the-mark. My answer was to get your windows computers to see shares on your Linux box. If you want to see the windows shares with the Linux box, you can use:

smbclient //<Win IP or NB Name>/<Share Name> -U <Username>

I've also heard about LinNeighborhood, which is a graphical network browsing tool. I've never used it before, but you might want to give it a shot.

oh ok, so first I have to setup shares with NFS?

what about seeing windows from linux? through SSH?

No, you don't have shares with NFS. You create the shares with Samba in the smb.conf file. Samba emulates SMB so that it can communicate with Microsoft OSes in their own language.


To see Windows from Linux, you use smbclient, which is a utility that comes with Samba. I posted the usage for it earlier in the thread. You could also use LinNeighborhood (which does not come with Samba).

Get LinNeighborhood here : http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/

Wow....three posts in a row pointing people to the same place

I tried that, and it asks for my password, then it says this:

tree connect failed: bad NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME


I made sure everything was typed in right, I know linux is case sensitive... what am i doing wrong?

actually, im at work, and its working!



but, there are some folders I cant CD to... and some I can, I am typing them in right..

I don't mean to insult your intelligence, but I don't have a whole lot of information here, so I'm just covering all the bases.

1) Do the folders that you can't cd to show up on a ls or dir?

2) Are the usernames and passwords on both computers the same? If not, are you sure you used the -U <username> option on the smbclient command?

3) Do all the folders have the same permissions, owner, and group?

hi, i figured out the problem. I needed to put the folder "new folder" becuase the folder name had a space. and it worked.