-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 17:27, Derek Jennings wrote: > > Samba should work virtually "out of the box" The only thing you > normally have to change is the Workgroup name, and add your Windows > passwords. > > If you install the drakwizard RPM then your Mandrake Control Centre > will contain a set of server wizards. The Samba wizard will install > samba for you and change your workgroup name. When the wizard > closes it will remind you to run 'smbpasswd -a user_name' for each > Windows users who wishes to access their home directories on Linux. > Give the *Windows* password of the user. > Just remember that the windows user must have an account on your machine that uses exactly the same login name and password as on the XP box - and it's case-sensitive.
If you also install lisa and lin-neighborhood you will easily be able to see the shares available, although you will have to specifically mount and umount. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXdUkkFAvMr/nNX8RAiN1AJ9Upo5adlc3gcTieTk3dJ9umWwEfgCghaiC mJin0ClrDoBQV3g//Fxly78= =XrBJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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