Re: linux box on XP home network
From: Abhinav (matrix_calling_at_yahoo.dot.com)
Date: 09/21/04
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:35:46 +0530
the black rose wrote:
> Please be patient with me; it's been 10 years since I played with Linux
> and I've forgotten a LOT. Not to mention, the last time I played with
> Linux I had one computer on a dial-up, not 4 computers on a home LAN.
>
> The situation. I have a cable modem. Attached to the cable modem is a
> four-port router. Attached to the router are 3 desktops running Windows
> XP and one laptop running Mandrake 10. I just installed Mandrake on the
> laptop last night. (FWIW, it's a Dell Inspiron 8100 with a built-in
> ethernet card.)
>
> The laptop can reach the internet. I can browse the web. But I can't
> find the other computers on the home network (which means I can't reach
> the shared printer on one of the XP boxes). I can't find any reference
> to the XP workgroup anywhere, but maybe I'm not looking in the right place.
>
You probably need to configure and use samba. Then, it would allow you
access to the Windows System (And vice-versa - you could access specific
directories in the linux system from the windows boxes.
The samba configuration is probably easy using the desktop. You might
consider looking at /etc/samba/smb.conf (IIRC) to configure the system.
[HTH]
Abhinav
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