File Sharing with Linux and Windows

Oatmeal · Post by **Oatmeal** » Sat May 08, 2004 7:39 pm

I can snag files from the Linux box, but when I go across my network to the Windows box (2000), I can't see the linux system.

Do you still need to use FAT32?
Do I need Samba? Would it help?

Linux system:
Fedora core 1
128MB RDRAM
60GB
1.4 P4
TNT2

Windows 2000:
SP4
512 DDR
80 GB
2600+
GeForce FX

smb · Post by **smb** » Sat May 08, 2004 9:53 pm

that's because windows cannot read native linux partitions (efs2, efs3, riser, etc..etc..) without some help. I think sysinternals.com use to have a driver that allowed that.

rndmtask · Post by **rndmtask** » Sat May 08, 2004 11:11 pm

Do you want to share files from your linux box to you windows box over a network? You need samba for that.

smb · Post by **smb** » Sun May 09, 2004 12:13 am

Originally posted by rndmtask
Do you want to share files from your linux box to you windows box over a network? You need samba for that.

There go, I couldn't remember what it was called.

Oatmeal · Post by **Oatmeal** » Sun May 09, 2004 8:23 am

Samba was set up automaticly from RedHat Fedora. Do I still need to install it on Windows? I didn't think you could do that?

rndmtask · Post by **rndmtask** » Sun May 09, 2004 5:47 pm

No samba is unix only it emulates the way windows shares files. You should be able to goto run type //yourlinuxbox and have it connect. If you want to post your samba.conf file I'm sure I could help more, I've set samba up plenty of times for file sharing.

smb · Post by **smb** » Sun May 09, 2004 5:59 pm

Here is a link to Easy Linux Guide .

I personally use SUSE after RedHat decided to go to Fedora, and before Fedora, Mandrake.

Oatmeal · Post by **Oatmeal** » Sun May 09, 2004 9:28 pm

Originally posted by rndmtask
No samba is unix only it emulates the way windows shares files. You should be able to goto run type //yourlinuxbox and have it connect. If you want to post your samba.conf file I'm sure I could help more, I've set samba up plenty of times for file sharing.

I'm not very software oriented; I'm a hardware guru, point being that I'm not as smooth at this as I could be. Found a couple of samba.conf files on my box, neither of them look helpful, just commentaries. I think that Core 1 ghosts the O/S partition, because I can't find anything related to a system root folder, or anything that lets me access files directly on the HDD for that matter. At least not in a familliar (Windows) way. I have a nifty home folder though. So any help here would also be appreciated.

Can't connect through Run: //IPSEDIXIT just returns an error. I'll keep f00ling around with it.

it's good to know you have some experience with it.

I'll try SUSE next. Thanks for all your help.

smb · Post by **smb** » Sun May 09, 2004 10:09 pm

to access root directories, you have to login as root.