Accessing SuSE shares from Linux.

jdblick · 05-22-2005, 12:36 PM

I just want a directory that can be accessed by my XP machine. I read all the stuff about samba and it talks about sharing whole disks I guess.

I have it setup right now so that my suse machine can access my windows shares. My windows machine cannot access my suse share because it says that it does not have permission. It doesn't go to a login or anything. Do I have to edit samba.conf or is there a nice spoiled gui way to allow anyone on my internal network to get to it?

jdblick · 05-22-2005, 12:40 PM

Dang, I messed up the title of the thread, sorry.

brundles · 05-23-2005, 09:20 AM

Assuming this is for a home network where security isn't that important you should be able to set the guest ok flag on everything.

In terms of GUIs, Yast has one you can use or alternatively you could try something like Webmin.

J.W. · 05-23-2005, 01:05 PM

Have you considered setting up the partition as FAT32? FAT32 can be read with equal ease by both Linux and Windows, whereas Windows doesn't play nice with Linux file systems such as ext3, reiser, etc. It may require a small amount of work to backup the data, then recreate the partition as FAT32 and restore the data, but that ought to do it. This may not be the most elegant solution but functionally it should work. Good luck with it -- J.W.