[ale] file sharing Linux to XP

[Howard A Story]

Marvin the Martian wrote:

>Paul Cartwright wrote:
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>>On Mon January 30 2006 3:34 pm, Brian Whigham wrote:
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>>>without using sneakernet, I'd recommend SAMBA for Linux.  It will
>>>allow you to use existing windows protocols.  Windows doesn't play
>>>well (for free) with anybody else's toys (i.e. NFS).  SAMBA is easy
>>>to get going. Your SUSE box is probably practically ready to hook up
>>>to Windows already.
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>>I just tried NFS, no luck. I still show a folder in network places, on 
>>the XP box that says home2 on Samba....blah... (PaulsPC) where PaulsPC 
>>is the SUSE box. now all I need is a samba.conf to make it SHARE.
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>You've *got* to create a user/pass pair with smbuser and smbpsswd.  
>Otherwise, you can look at the folder all day and never be able to open it.
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>When winders trys to connect, it'll ask for that pair when everything is 
>set-up right.   Then you can have it save the nfo and automagically 
>mount the remote disk every log-in- if that's what you want.   It should 
>also take care of any dialogs windows might want to give you about 
>running a program remotely.
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>KDE and Gnome have great tools to set-up a SAMBA server/network.  Very 
>easy to use.  I'd reccomend them.  :-)
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Hey,   What about SWAT and WEBMIN?   Cool thing about SAMBA is that the 
users in SAMBA don't have to have accounts on the server. :)