Could you elaborate on how to connect to a windows machine using either tool?
>From what I can see, samba client allows the specifying of the workgroup, samba server the setting up of shares on the local machine that can be connected to from other (windows) machines. The initial question sought info on connecting to windows shares from the linux box. Roger Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> To mount Shares from Windows PC???s >> >> Create directory e.g /share >> >> To mount.... type... >> >> smbmount //winsys/winshare some-mount-point >> > > No, that's what you do for debugging. Remember it was SUSE, so the > answer is to use yast. Under network services are entries for both > "samba server" and "samba client". Nick's answer was probably spot on, > and the install didn't include the samba packages. > Yast->software->software management. > > Volker > >
