Here's what I'm hoping is an easy question for you all.

I have a Win XP and a Fedora core 2 machine connected together via a D-Link router. My Linux box can see my XP box but not the other way around. What do I have to do for my Windows PC to see the Linux machine on my network? Thanks.

You have to setup something called Samba on your Fedora Machine. In the configuration file will be some options to let it be seen on the network.

Thanks, I wasn't sure what Samba was all about.

Well, progress but not solved yet. The Fedora machine shows up in "My Network Places" after I set up Samba but I still can't access the folder I set up to share. It says I don't have access. I set up Samba so anyone ca access the directory so I'm not sure what the problem is.

Any more advice?

I'm actually looking to setup a home network running Fedora Core 2 and XP...i'm curious to see a solution as well!

I'm a total newbie to Linux considering setting up a Linux box to use as a file and home network e-mail server with 4 XP SP2 machines. After installing Linux on it's computer I haven't the faintest idea what to do next. Can anybody offer help and suggestions?

Thanks!!

wekoenig3

You might have to change the file permissions on the actual directory itself, not just who can access the directory through Samba. I believe thats the correct way to do it...

-Kazul

I haven't had any luck getting my computers to talk to each other. I can ping them both but that's it. I used to be able to access my XP machine from Linux at least but after I had to reinstall I can't even do that anymore.

Does anybody know of a dumbed down tutorial some place of sharing files between XP and Linux? The man page for Samba didn't help much either.

Hi,

A LQ search will get you a LOT on samba!

You could reference samba, check my sig.

How about swat to configure your samba. Did you try it?

From a browser enter into the address bar;

http://localhost:901

You will now be in the samba configuration.

HTH!

Thanks for the tips Gary, I'll work on it.

Couple of simple things to check.
Are all machines in the same workgroup, check the smb.conf file for this, machine ID in windows. You will need to restart windows and restart samba for any changes to take effect (as root Service smb restart)
Check the directory permission. Although very sloppy I just did chmod -Rv 777 /home/user/

Make sure that port 139 isn't blocked on your machines, either xp or linux.

What security level have you set in the smb.conf file. If you don't want / need any security just user "share" level security. No passwords required which is helpful since xp home won't remember them for network shares.

Hope this helps,
woppa