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Windows XP machine can't see Linux box
My Linux machine automatically shows the shared folders on my Windows
computer. How can I get the Windows machine to display my Linux shares? Thanks! |
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Windows XP machine can't see Linux box
Hiawatha Bray wrote:
My Linux machine automatically shows the shared folders on my Windows computer. How can I get the Windows machine to display my Linux shares? Thanks! man samba You apparently have samba running on the Linux box, although I don't think you've configured the Workgroup and shares section properly. Malke -- MS MVP - Windows Shell/User Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" |
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Windows XP machine can't see Linux box
man samba isn't much help. Seems to be written in Greek
No matter; I figured it out anyway. Turns out you have to switch on the Samba server feature. In my version of Linux, Suse 9.1, it's turned off by default. I switched it on, set up a folder in my home directory for sharing, and bingo. It shows up in Windows Network Places. I'm now good to go. Thanks much. "Malke" wrote in message ... Hiawatha Bray wrote: My Linux machine automatically shows the shared folders on my Windows computer. How can I get the Windows machine to display my Linux shares? Thanks! man samba You apparently have samba running on the Linux box, although I don't think you've configured the Workgroup and shares section properly. Malke -- MS MVP - Windows Shell/User Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" |
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Windows XP machine can't see Linux box
Oops...I spoke too soon. My Windows computer can see my Linux box now that
I've turned on the Samba server. But now, the Linux box can't see the Windows machine. All I did was turn on the Samba server, but it seems to have screwed up something else. Any ideas? Thanks. "Malke" wrote in message ... Hiawatha Bray wrote: My Linux machine automatically shows the shared folders on my Windows computer. How can I get the Windows machine to display my Linux shares? Thanks! man samba You apparently have samba running on the Linux box, although I don't think you've configured the Workgroup and shares section properly. Malke -- MS MVP - Windows Shell/User Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" |
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Windows XP machine can't see Linux box
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:26:31 -0500, Hiawatha Bray wrote:
My Linux machine automatically shows the shared folders on my Windows computer. How can I get the Windows machine to display my Linux shares? It would be better to ask in a Linux newsgroup how to get samba to share with Windows XP. For example, to browse samba, you need a properly configured guest account with no password (but preferably no shell login allowed). But I have not used samba for a long time, so I do not know current details. |
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Windows XP machine can't see Linux box
David Efflandt wrote:
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:26:31 -0500, Hiawatha Bray wrote: My Linux machine automatically shows the shared folders on my Windows computer. How can I get the Windows machine to display my Linux shares? It would be better to ask in a Linux newsgroup how to get samba to share with Windows XP. For example, to browse samba, you need a properly configured guest account with no password (but preferably no shell login allowed). But I have not used samba for a long time, so I do not know current details. To Hiawatha - If you're going to use Linux, you have to learn how to use man. You can also go to www.samba.org for more detailed help. Basically, you have to configure your smb.conf file to make sure your Windows network is in there correctly. Since you have SuSE, use YaST to do this. You need to have both smbd and nmbd running. Again, use YaST to configure this in the runlevels. You might also want to try running a gui Samba configurator - SWAT. There is information about how to set up SWAT on Samba.org. You also need to add the Windows users and their passwords (identical) on the Linux box *and* in Samba with smbpasswd -a. Make sure all shares have appropriate permissions. Malke -- MS MVP - Windows Shell/User Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" |
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Windows XP machine can't see Linux box
Guess you're right. What puzzles me is that I didn't have to do any of this
to get the Linux computer to see the Windows shared files. They were just there. It's as if Linux' designers wanted to make it easy to work with Windows, but the Microsofties had other ideas. Oh well...thanks. "Malke" wrote in message ... David Efflandt wrote: On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:26:31 -0500, Hiawatha Bray wrote: My Linux machine automatically shows the shared folders on my Windows computer. How can I get the Windows machine to display my Linux shares? It would be better to ask in a Linux newsgroup how to get samba to share with Windows XP. For example, to browse samba, you need a properly configured guest account with no password (but preferably no shell login allowed). But I have not used samba for a long time, so I do not know current details. To Hiawatha - If you're going to use Linux, you have to learn how to use man. You can also go to www.samba.org for more detailed help. Basically, you have to configure your smb.conf file to make sure your Windows network is in there correctly. Since you have SuSE, use YaST to do this. You need to have both smbd and nmbd running. Again, use YaST to configure this in the runlevels. You might also want to try running a gui Samba configurator - SWAT. There is information about how to set up SWAT on Samba.org. You also need to add the Windows users and their passwords (identical) on the Linux box *and* in Samba with smbpasswd -a. Make sure all shares have appropriate permissions. Malke -- MS MVP - Windows Shell/User Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" |
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Windows XP machine can't see Linux box
Hiawatha Bray wrote:
Guess you're right. What puzzles me is that I didn't have to do any of this to get the Linux computer to see the Windows shared files. They were just there. It's as if Linux' designers wanted to make it easy to work with Windows, but the Microsofties had other ideas. Oh well...thanks. Well, I don't think I agree with you. I don't think this is a case of any particular developers not wanting to "make it easy". I think you just have to put in the time to learn about how to set up the networks, both Windows and Linux. Get your smb.conf right, get your Windows networking right, and you should be good to go. Good luck, Malke -- MS MVP - Windows Shell/User Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" |
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