On Monday 12 Dec 2005 20:28, Terry Liittschwager wrote: > I'm just starting to puzzle out the networking of my Linux desktop > machine with my wife's WinXP Home and my Laptop's WinXP Pro. > > My question of the moment, for my Linux system, is the relationship > between lisa and samba. Can they be run together or are they mutually > exclusive or doesn't the question even make sense. > > More than slightly confused, > > Terry Liittschwager
Yes they can be run together. They are not mutually exclusive. Samba - is compatible with Windows networking. Samba discovers computers to communicate with either by sending a broadcast message and waiting for responses from other samba or Windows computers, or by consulting a master browser computer for a list of networked computers. Once remote samba or Windows computers are discovered samba can then connect to them and may access their shared folders. LISA - is purely a method to discover other computers on the network by pinging them. Lisa has nothing to do with accessing files on the remote computer. It simply finds the computer and discovers what services it supports. In Mandriva 2006 if lisa is running you can see in the 'Devices' folder what services a remote computer is providing such as fish, http, or samba, and can then connect to those services using the appropriate protocol. Lisa is not essential for discovering a samba/windows network, but is an alternate way to discover the network. Since Samba is the only way to communicate with your wife's WinXP (without adding software to her computer), then you should install 'samba-client'. If you want to access files on Linux from her computer you also need to install 'samba-server'. Samba will only let Windows networks see authorised shares, so for each user you want to expose their home directories to the network do smbpassed -a user_name in a root terminal. Leave lisa running as well and then you will be able to see your wife's computer in the 'Devices' folder. You can also view the Windows network if you install 'smb4k' its kind of like 'Network Explorer' in Windows. Once you have samba installed and can browse your wife's computer, then running the printer wizard in Mandriva Control Centre will allow your Linux computer to print to a printer attached to her Windows computer. I hope I have explained that clearly :-) derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
