On 31 Jan 2002 10:14:25 -0600 Dave Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> revealed these words to me:
> On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 07:57, Paul Kraus wrote: > > How do I access network resources in a windows workgroup? How do I share > > a folder? > > Paul, > > To integrate Linux networking with Windows, you need the Samba suite of > applications for Linux. These generally include 3 packages (rpm's) > called samba-common, samba-server, and samba-client. Mandrake 8.1 > includes all of these, at version 2.2.2 if I remember correctly. > > You only need samba-common and samba-client to access shares on other > computers. If you want to create shares that others can access from > Windows (or Linux), then you also need samba-server. > > Once Samba is installed, there is ample documentation included to help > you get started. > > Dave > -- > Beware of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. > to have gui for mounting network shares im using komba2 (somebody suggested linneighborhood but i dont know that app). to share directories, you have to modify your samba.conf. the mandrake installation contains the samba-doc package which contains an excellent e-book in starting with samba. or you could try the SWAT approach (http://localhost:901), if you have it installed, to create shares. ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." ============================= Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 =============================
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