home networking: easy way?

Kiwi-Hawk kiwi-hawk at paradise.net.nz
Fri Oct 1 19:10:02 UTC 2004


Joey Kelley wrote:

>Quoting Trevor Smith <trevor at haligonian.com>:
>
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>>On October 1, 2004 2:29 pm, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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>>>Very easy: after you have configured the shares on the Windows[tm] side
>>>open up nautilus (if running Gnome) or the KDE browser (if running KDE)
>>>and enter at the direction bar: smb://WIN_MACHINE_NAME. Quickly you will
>>>see the available shares the Windows[tm] host offers.
>>>      
>>>
>>Right. Well, there are many assumptions hidden in your message, and one or
>>more of them is not applicable to my case.
>>
>>1. Maybe "configured shared on the Windows machine" doesn't mean what I think
>>it does. I've gone on the administrator's account on the XP machine and
>>follwed the help instructions (created a folder, right-clicked, selected
>>"sharing", told it to share the folder on the network)
>>
>>2. Maybe something more is needed on my computer. I installed samba (and swat
>>and samba-client) on my FC2 machine, via "yum install samba" (and the
>>corresponding commands for the other 2). The samba servers seem to start
>>(smbd and nmbd are running) and swat works. The XP machine can see me (there
>>is a "Samba Server (Trevor)" icon in the My Network Places) but it can not
>>connect to me (double clicking on that icon results in a path not found or
>>not reachable error or something).
>>
>>3. I can't do as you say: smb://ISAAC in a Konqueror window. "Could not
>>connect to host for smb://isaac/"
>>
>>Any ieas about where I should start looking?
>>
>>--
>>Trevor Smith // trevor at haligonian.com
>>
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>Hello All - this might be the blind leading the blind, or the newbie leading the
>newbie, but - here goes.
>         A little about my network configuration:
>         At the moment - Blackhole-  XP SP2
>                       - Desktop - Win 98 SE
>                       - localhost (fedora) - Fedora FC1
>         All are setup on the same workgroup.
>         That workgroup is known as Workgroup.
>         For a windows machine to see anything, it must be in the same
>workgroup, or the machine has to be able to browse multiple workgroups.
>         Since Trevor states that he can see the Fedora box from the XP box, the
>configuration problem is probably on the Fedora side (at least thats what I
>found) Incidently, Trevor, your procedure for sharing a folder in XP is
>correct, frankly, if you didn't do that correctly there wouldn't be much hope
>:-)
>         Since I am running FC1-  your exact procedure may vary - but here goes:
>         In Gnome
>         Bring up the main menu - Go to System Settings, then Server Settings,
>then SAMBA
>         Enter Root password if needed.
>         This will bring up the SAMBA server config GUI.
>         If you don't have a share configured, I doubt the server will work
>correctly. I have my /home/joey directory configured for read/write access for
>all network users. Additional directories can be added by hitting Add.
>          Once a share has been configured, go into Preferences, come down to
>Server Settings
>          Be absolutely sure that the workgroup is typed exactly as Windoze
>wants it - it can be very touchy - also I have a description in place, I assume
>that would be optional.
>          For a home network, go under the security tab and select the
>Authentication mode - set it to Share. As you probably don't care about
>encrypting passwords-  set that to no - and set the Guest account to the user
>account. Mine is joey
>          Click ok.
>          Go Back to preferences, go to Users.
>          Create a SAMBA user that has the same name as the primary user on the
>machine - set the password to the same as well.
>          Click OK.
>          I did notice that these changes seem to take a few minutes on my PII
>to have any effect - I would suggest waiting a few minutes after trying this.
>          After a few minutes, you should be able to go into the main menu,
>Select Network Servers.
>          If you've done your job correctly, the work group will appear in the
>window - double click and you should see all of the computers in the workgroup,
>including the one you're on.
>          For some reason, it takes forever for my Fedora box to access a
>Windoze share - not exactly sure why. I think, that it might be my Windows
>Firewalling-  I run BlackIce PC protection. After the Fedora box gets access
>for the first time, it seems to go faster.
>          Hope this helps!
>          cya, Joey
>
>
>--Joey Kelley, Fedora Newbie--
>"If David beat Goliath, Linux
>should kick Microsofts butt!"
>
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Not really up on this but samba conf,.  I had a lots of issues back when 
I did it with permissions and rights of access




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