What does it take to access winxp computer on home network?

ieatbunnies · 02-04-2010, 05:23 PM

I'm running ubuntu 9.1 and want to access another computer on my home network. That particular computer is running XP pro. I set up the user account on the windows machine with admin rights, did the remote user yada yada yada...

still can't access the folders. i know this is vague but whatever you can do with the above information to point me in the right direction would be awesome.

thanks in advance.

ieatbunnies · 02-04-2010, 05:34 PM

As I was posting I was searching and searching. Samba seems to be the answer but upon a quick skimming of the docs I need to have a server going.. The home network is a workgroup as you all probably have guessed.

Will this be a problem?

Tinkster · 02-04-2010, 05:52 PM

You won't need a server going.

Depending on the DE you're using you should be able to just
access it with an smb:// or cifs:// notation. You *will* need
a valid smb.conf , though.

onebuck · 02-04-2010, 07:19 PM

Hi,

'SMB-HOWTO' should aid in the use. Or look at 'Quick and dirty Samba setup' which is a Slackware article but applicable.

The above links and others can be found at 'Slackware-Links'. More than just Slackware® links!