Re: Networking XP with Linux box

From: Peter Köhlmann (Peter.Koehlmann_at_t-online.de)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 00:08:58 +0200

Hiawatha Bray wrote:

> I don't understand. Obviously Samba's running on the Linux box; that's
> why
> it shows me the Windows machine. My problem is that the Linux box does
> NOT
> appear in my Windows network directory. Any idea how to fix this?
>

First of all: Don't top-post

Second: Samba

You have smbclient running, so you can see SMB shares on the network.
To make your linux machine appear on the network as a server, install the
samba-server

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