sharing folders with an xp computer
 

Hi all, sorry if this is a sily question but I'm VERY new to all this. I've newly installed ubuntu 6.06 for the first time! Already managed to figure out the codecs to get everything playing properly. I'm trying to network with another computer, running xp. I've gotten it to recognize the network, and I can browse/access shared folders and files on the other system, but I'm unclear on how to share folders from this computer. Help?

Okay, so I've figured out how to edit the samba config file to fix the workgroup name, and how to list the directories I want to share as "public". Within Samba, that's all set up properly now I think. That is to say, it looks right in the smb.conf file, and when I right click on a folder and select "share" the settings seem to have carried over properly. But from the Windows Network window (on the ubuntu machine) it doesn't recognize the folder I set up to share as being part of the network. On the xp machine where I'm trying to access this folder, it doesn't see the folder. It also doesn't recognize the ubuntu machine as part of the workgroup.

I'm probably missing something really basic and obvious here, but it's beyone me. Any help or advise would be very appreiciated. Or if this is all answered in another thread that I didn't find, point me there. Thanks everyone!

Hi, here is a simple and working smaba configuration file, maybe it will help to you

These forums are handy. working on this right now to try and share soem folders with my xp machine from my linux box