> |-----Original Message----- > |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Neil R Porter > |Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 5:51 AM > |To: Linux Newbie > |Subject: RE: [newbie] Servers > | > | > |If you already had filesharing setup in windows then (as Derek > |suggests) samba will just work out of the box (if not goto > |control panel>networks>make sure filesharing is > |ticked/installed... and make sure you have firewall settings > |on linux such that it doesn't stop it working. Again, Derek > |has a link to where there is help for this. > > > |As for Linux to windows filesharing (i.e. the other way round, cos > samba > |doesn't do both to my knowledge), I use Komba2 to mount my > |Windows machines' files. > | > > WHAAAAAT????? > > Check out SMBClient and SMBMount... > > All Komba2 does is invoke these programs, which are part of Samba.
nice gui though > I.E. > > "smbclient -L \\Windowsmachine -U Validuser " > > Where "validuser" is a username that you have used at least once at your > Winblows box to log into the network. (this is important!). > > If you can do this Samba will let you utilize Winblows printers from > Linux, even WinPrinters (read brain damaged printers)! > > Lisa/Reslisa let's Konqueror BROWSE Winblows shares as well. As does Komba2... by default I think it puts the shares in /home/user/komba2/... so you can browse with konq. > -JMS Neil
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