I'm going to show my Windoze ignorance now...
I have 3 machines around my desk - the main one, running UBUNTU linux - I do most of my stuff on this. Alongside it is my old PC, which now runs
Win2K - I kept this for those occasions where only Windoze will do a job. Finally, I have a knackered old laptop running Win2K - mostly used to set up
the car's megajolt system.
When all machines are switched on and logged in:
Have you installed samba server on the ubuntu box?
You'll not be able to access anything on the linux box unless samba is broadcasting the shares. It will also then make it visible in windows
networking.
I *think* I have SAMBA installed... but I'll check later today.
DJ
As said, it needs samba running, but it also needs configured properly or it won't do much, there are few nice front ends available to do this if
you don't fancy hand editing
Cheers
Alex
Samba is actually two seperate programs -- a client and a server.
On most versions of Linux running a recent version Gnome or KDE you can view and read shared directories on Windows PCS without Samba.
Because of the nature of Windows getting Samba to work propely and be secure can be a pain in the neck even using one of the front ends, but if you
just want to drag & drop files install WinScp on the Win2K PCs this will allows you to login from the the Windows PC and drag and drop from an
Windows Explore style window.
WinScp is secure easy to install and FREE (GPL)
http://winscp.net/eng/docs/screenshots&sa=X&oi=smap&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=3&usg=AFrqEzejBrqsnBWyCeOuouWiDEhLdPNwQQ
However if you do want to set up a Samba Windows share on the Ubuntu PC try setting it up using Webmin --- however take setting up web min as it can
open a security hole.
[Edited on 2/5/07 by britishtrident]
Set up a share on the windoze box, make sure samba is running on the linux box. The linux box will see the windows share and you can copy files to it.
I have not yet sorted doing the reverse as I get asked for a username and password from the linux share on the windoze box but whatever I type does
not seem to work.
ta
allan
quote:
Originally posted by awinter
Set up a share on the windoze box, make sure samba is running on the linux box. The linux box will see the windows share and you can copy files to it.
I have not yet sorted doing the reverse as I get asked for a username and password from the linux share on the windoze box but whatever I type does not seem to work.
ta
allan