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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Master of Reality on 22 December 2002, 05:02

Title: samba
Post by: Master of Reality on 22 December 2002, 05:02

after wading through documentation. I got one question about samba. I have it running, i can view windows drives from linux. But how do i veiw my shared directory on linux from win98?

Title: samba
Post by: Master of Reality on 22 December 2002, 05:43

after much trial and error i got it to work... somehow... i think i had to start nmbd

Title: samba
Post by: voidmain on 22 December 2002, 06:28

You don't really need nmbd running but it's easier if you do. If you do not run nmbd it will not show up in your network neighborhood on your Windows box. You still should be able to get to it by UNC name:

\\LINUX\SHARE

In the run box or explorer.

Title: samba
Post by: Master of Reality on 22 December 2002, 06:44

oh... so that must be what someone was talkin' about in some place that i was reading when he/she said that i could edit some hosts file in windows too.

[ December 21, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / B0b ]

Title: samba
Post by: Stryker on 23 December 2002, 03:36

to view it you can either use smbmount (or just mount and set the type to smbfs) or you can use konqueror and connect to smb://ipaddress/share

if none of those work then i'd check your subnets and stuff but if windows can view it, then it shouldn't be a problem.

Title: samba
Post by: Master of Reality on 23 December 2002, 03:40

reread the thread.