brian i got it up and working it found my XP machine but now a kwallet windows popped up asking set up or avdanced setup...now what...should I click next? this is a wizard.

Press Alt+F2 and type smb4k to run it.

I accidentally replied to this post using the report this post form. Hope the mod's won't get mad.

Depends on how you installed SMB4k. If through yum there should be a menu item in the KDE menu. If from source I think it still does since KDE compliant. For a shortcut open a knoquorer window and drag the smb4k executable to the Desktop as a link. Then you can right click and select properties and then change the icon to an smb4k icon.

Brian

i clicked next and the wizard is looking for a password to remember....is it looking for the PW for my XP machine?

You can skip the kwallet wizard.

cool...i Have access to my drives on my xp machine...thanks guys...now what do i do if i want to print from linux machine to my network printer that is connected to my XP machine please...this is so cool.

You can try going to kcontrol and search for printers. Then add a printer and follow the wizard instructions.


vxc

Guys, how come I can't see my linux machine on my XP machine but I can access my xp machine from Linux machine? Would linux machine firewall be blocking it? If so, how do I fix that please?

Try configuring samba. Use kcontrol and search for samba. The workgroup name the Win machines use and the ones you enter into samba should be the same.

Add some shares then check the XP machine.

If you can ping your linux machine from the XP one then I doubt there are any router/firewall problems.

I'm off to sleep man. I need it.


vxc

VXC... I found samba, opened it, under settings workgroup and netbios name of my linux machine and clicked off user and clicked apply, under shares i selected home directories and clicked apply but i still can't see it on my XP machine...any idea why?

we can pick it up tomowwow.

Do you have a firewall up on the linux machine?
If so is it blocking the need ports for samba access?

Brian

Brian, What are the need ports for samba access please? How do I punch a hole in the linux firewall to permit access?

To check your firewall status on Fedora try:
./etc/init.d/iptables status

or

./etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables status

The above may work, also you might have ipchains instead of iptables. I'm not too sure because I haven't used fedora since core 2.

If you have got a firewall setup then let ports 137 and 139 access from outside. You might want to search the archives about getting samba to work if you didn't setup a firewall. I think that may be the problem.

All else fails and you still think you have a firewall problem then try starting a new thread in the networking forum. I don't have much experience with firewall setups.


vxc