On Sunday 28 Dec 2003 11:23 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having another go at trying to get my Mandrake desktop to talk to my > WIN2K laptop. I tried a while back but gave up. > I think I'm confusing the basic concepts here - I had the impression > that I had to use Samba, but just now tonight I've just been reading > some help pages and they seem to only talk about using Samba for windows > users to log on to the Linux box. Am I trying to use the wrong tool for > the job? > > I want to be able to see the files on the laptop, so I can do some > editing etc while I'm away from home and then transfer my work to the > Mandrake machine without first booting into windows to do the transfer. > Even better would be if I could get it so I could run Dreamweaver on my > Mandrake box [using Wine???] so I could edit the files right there on > the laptop, and continue on next time I boot the laptop away from home > again. > > My logic would seem to tell me that I have to have a username and > password set up on the WIN2K box so I made one, but I can't find > anywhere in Samba to specify the new username and password. I found a > Wiki page on "Samba basics" which says "WebMin and SWAT both have > methods for dealing with this, and are easy enough to use that I won't > cover them." Well that sounded encouraging, so I installed Webmin. After > much stuffing around and seemingly downloading the same set of files 4 > times I got Webmin running [don't ask me how...]. But in the Samba Share > Manager page the only thing I can see that is relevant is the link "Edit > Samba users and passwords". But clicking on that only gives me the > message "No Samba users defined" - without giving any hint as to how to > define them. > > I did some more reading and googling without finding a helpful > instruction page [man Samba doesn't help much, for example! LOL]. Before > I go any further I thought I'd better check in with you guys - to get > back to the question at the top of this email: am I using the wrong > tool? [or trying to...] > > TIA for your advice, > > -- > Merlin Zener > Piano, Synthesizer > Thailand. > > registered Linux user number 328618
You are correct Merlin in saying you do not need Samba server to see files on your Windows Laptop. But you do need samba client. urpmi samba-client That is all you have to do. Now in the url line of konqueror you can put :- smb://ip_add_of_laptop/ and you should see the shares the laptop is advertising. Also if you install LinNeighborhood or komba2 (in contrib) you can have a 'Network Explorer' type interface to browse your Windows network. That should be all you need. BTW: If you have difficulty it might help to run as root :- update-alternatives --auto smbclient derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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