Fed 10 and Windows Vista not talking

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Mar 4 03:59:11 UTC 2009


Christopher Hogan wrote:
> I have a small Lan with Fed 10 on the desktop system, and a laptop with
> Vista.   I can not seem to get them to see each other on the network.  I
> want to be able to access an NTFS drive on the linux machine with the
> vista machine.    I have samba set up with my workgroup name, but both my
> wireless modem/router and my windows machine can't see the linux system.  
> HELP, I'm a linux Newb. Teddy Bear

You need to go to Administration / Firewall on your Fedora system and
check "Samba" and "Samba server" there, otherwise the firewall will block
it.

        Kevin Kofler




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