It is a good suggestion to go visit samba's website. Here are some quick answers that might help as well. If you have redhat 8.0 installed, bring up nautilus and type smb:// in the location bar. It will show you the windows computers on the network.
If you know the windows share you want to mount, then type $ mount -t smbfs //<name of windows machine>/<Share> /<where you want to mount it> cherio! > From: "Matthew Larson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:10 PM >> Hey, does anybody know how I would connect to a windows machine to >> transfer files? Whould I have to mount to some network folder? >> >> Also, if my printer is attached to this same [computer]? How do I >> print to it? I was able to find a utility in my gnome menu under >> "system settings -> printing", but I can't seem to get it to work >> right. >> >> Any ideas? > > Samba is what you need: www.samba.org. It is the means by which > linux/unix computers can connect to or server up file shares and > printers on/for windoze computers. This is not a trivial program that > you can quickly understand and setup; it'll take a lot of work but will > be a great learning experience. > > If this seems too daunting, you may want to go the other way: get > windows setup to access unix services. You would need a NFS > client/server for windows (and setup NFS on linux). You may also be > able to setup windows unix printing service (or something like that). > All of this cost money. > > So you have the option of free/difficult/learning experience or > money/relatively easy/you haven't learned much. I would definately > suggest you go to www.samba.org and start reading. Don't be afraid of > breaking things, try it out, see if you can share a simple directory, > then try more difficult things. Search around Google for answers and > ask away on this list. > > Have fun, > Matt W. > PS If you just want to get a few files off of your windows computer, > try ftp-ing them to the linux computer. > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ List > Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
