I have a windows based home network with my college buddies and was tired of infectious popups getting passed around so I switched my comp to fedora core 1. How do I hook into the file sharing on my buddies windows network. I found a bunch of internet connection sharing solutions but all I want is file and printer sharing (I dont have a printer and need theirs). I dont want to serve from my comp either. Any suggestions?

You'll need a user account on any of the windows machines you want to access. Please post the output of smbclient -L ip address of windows machine you wish to access.

here's the output...if it's not too complicated, what does this command do. I am guessing it is a samba command but i dont get the output. If you dont wanna explain, dont worry about it. Thanks for the help!

[root@localhost danno]# smbclient -l 192.168.254.184 Usage: [-?] [-?EV] [-?EV] [-?EVNkP] [-?|--help] [--usage] [-R|--name-resolve NAM E-RESOLVE-ORDER]
[-M|--message HOST] [-I|--ip-address IP] [-E|--stderr] [-L|--list HOST]
[-t|--terminal CODE] [-m|--max-protocol LEVEL] [-T|--tar <c|x>IXFqgbNan]
[-D|--directory DIR] [-c|--command STRING] [-b|--send-buffer BYTES]
[-p|--port PORT] [-d|--debuglevel DEBUGLEVEL]
[-s|--configfile CONFIGFILE] [-l|--log-basename LOGFILEBASE]
[-V|--version] [-O|--socket-options SOCKETOPTIONS]
[-n|--netbiosname NETBIOSNAME] [-W|--workgroup WORKGROUP]
[-i|--scope SCOPE] [-U|--user USERNAME] [-N|--no-pass] [-k|--kerberos]
[-A|--authentication-file FILE] [-S|--signing on|off|required]
[-P|--machine-pass] service <password>

P.S. we are using DHCP from a router/hub. Are the computers ip's dynamic on the local network, or are they just assigned a dynamic ip for connection to the internet server?

To simplify things, the usage is smbclient -L ip address, note the case sensitive L . If you're using DHCP from the router assuming there is only one nic in each box, and all the machines are using DHCP the ip's should all be dynamic.
good luck.

Thanks for the info. I hope they arent dynamic, here is the real output, sorry for the wrong case...

[root@localhost danno]# smbclient -L 192.168.254.184
Password:

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
print$ Disk Printer Drivers
SharedDocs Disk
Epson Printer EPSON Stylus CX5400
kory's stuff Disk
session request to 192.168.254.184 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)

Server Comment
--------- -------

Workgroup Master
--------- -------

This is the shared printer.

Epson Printer EPSON Stylus CX5400

This is a how to on accessing it.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/...ing_to_windows

Hope that helps.
good luck.