Guys you will all have to forgive me for my ignorance but I need some help. I have a ton of .avi files on my Sun E250 RAID I have mounted to my Fedora box. I have a Media Lounge connected to my TV and I am trying to figure out how to map a drive from my Windows XP box to the Fedora box. I have read several topics on setting up Samba but none of them have worked. I have only been working with UNIX/LINUX for a few month now but I love the challenge and control. This one is proving to be a bit too big of a challenge for my experiance level. I would greatly appreciate any help a patient person is willing to give.

Thanks,
Ryan V

This will help.

http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/sambaserver.shtml

read samba and do a test , something u not understand come back and ask here , ppl here willing to help u all the way but u must have initiative to learn , try n error , for me samba make my life easier

but if u talk about mapping drive , there u have to learn how to use mount command
and how to edit /etc/fstab for auto mount , but i will not use this scared me if network lost then i cannot start my linux normally

chears

Thanx guys I'll give these things a try and I appreciate the help.

Ryan V.

You can use the command :

(there is no space b/w "PC-username" & "," & "password=" )

Prior to run this command you need to create a new dir with name "windows" in /mnt

(You may use any other existing directory in /mnt)

It will work.

I expect you are using your linux box with root privilleges. Otherwise run "su" prior to this command if you get any error.

Now after mounting your PC-Windows XP, you'll be preferring to make a symlink & point /mnt/windows to point to a new location anywhere on your linux box assuming that location does not exist.

Run command

Through that command i created a symlink of directory

/mnt/windows --> /windows-symlink directory.

Now you can crosscheck by

(read MAN page of ln for more info)

FEEDBACK for any other query.

It is working like a champ!!!!! Bill Gates can kiss my $(&# !!!!
I was trying to make it way harder than it really is because I am used to UNIX console mode. The Fedora GUI made it a snap so thanx for the link Thoreau. I want to go back now that I know how it works and nail it down in a terminal window. Thanx again for the help and I'm sure I will be coming back.

Ryan V.