Tutorial

Marklar · 12-20-2003, 02:47 PM

Are there any GOOD (I am new at Linux) tutorials on how to network my Windows XP computer with my Redhat 9.0 computer? Thanks.

jcookeman · 12-20-2003, 02:57 PM

http://www.linuxorbit.com/howto/sambahowto.php3

More background:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/...ollection.html

Marklar · 12-20-2003, 03:21 PM

any others?

jcookeman · 12-20-2003, 03:43 PM

What exactly are you trying to do? When you say network do you mean file sharing?

Marklar · 12-20-2003, 03:59 PM

yeah I did...and I followed that first tutorial that you gave me...well it all works except I don't see the linux computer on my windows ( I did everything as it says) Maybe my usernames are wrong and aren't the same? how do I check?

Marklar · 12-20-2003, 04:14 PM

anyone else know?

jcookeman · 12-20-2003, 04:47 PM

When you put the UNC path '\\linuxbox\sharename' does it prompt you for the username and password?

Marklar · 12-20-2003, 06:54 PM

No I can't get to that step yet...I don't even have the linux box showing up in my network neighborhood.

jcookeman · 12-20-2003, 06:57 PM

That doesn't matter. Goto Start > Run and see if you can get it via the UNC path. Did you put the global in the smb.conf file for remote announce?

Marklar · 12-20-2003, 07:02 PM

I did whatever the tutorial said, what's a UNC path

jcookeman · 12-20-2003, 07:26 PM

For instance, if the servername is "linuxbox" and the users home directory is shared as the username and the username is "john", then try:

Code:

\\linuxbox\john

Marklar · 12-20-2003, 07:44 PM

where do I find that information? of what the servername and the username?