Re: [SLUG] Browsing Windows from Linux

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Tue Jul 30 2002 - 19:08:00 EDT


On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:58:41PM -0400, Clay, John wrote:

> How, or what program, needs to be used to enable one to browse a Windows
> network from a Linux desktop?
>
> Thanks
>
> John Clay
> Tallahassee
>

Samba, properly configured. (It's that "properly configured" part
that'll get ya!) Actually, it's all in one file: /etc/smb.conf. Then you
start the daemon (script is in /etc/init.d, generally). There is also
an excellent troubleshooting guide in the Samba documentation called
DIAGNOSIS.TXT.

Paul



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