[ale] file sharing Linux to XP

Paul Cartwright paul_tbot at pcartwright.com
Mon Jan 30 15:57:52 EST 2006


On Mon January 30 2006 3:34 pm, Brian Whigham wrote:
> without using sneakernet, I'd recommend SAMBA for Linux. ?It will
> allow you to use existing windows protocols. ?Windows doesn't play
> well (for free) with anybody else's toys (i.e. NFS). ?SAMBA is easy
> to get going. Your SUSE box is probably practically ready to hook up
> to Windows already.

I just tried NFS, no luck. I still show a folder in network places, on 
the XP box that says home2 on Samba....blah... (PaulsPC) where PaulsPC 
is the SUSE box. now all I need is a samba.conf to make it SHARE.

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800 



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