Cross communication between Linux and XP

After a couple of days of playing around with samba I have been ablke to
get linux to share files with xp, but cannot figure out how to get linux
to access shared files on xp. Anyone have a clue as too whether you can
do this at the same time and if so how? I am running ubuntu 10.04 and
samba4.



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Nightwind65

On Friday 02 July 2010 04:06 in comp.os.linux.networking, somebody
identifying as Dan wrote...

> After a couple of days of playing around with samba I have been ablke
> to get linux to share files with xp, but cannot figure out how to get
> linux to access shared files on xp. Anyone have a clue as too whether
> you can do this at the same time and if so how? I am running ubuntu
> 10.04 and samba4.

Samba actually consists of *two* packages. One is the server package,
for making a UNIX system appear as an NT server to Windows clients over
the network. If you want the UNIX machine to access a Windows share
over the network, you need the Samba *client* package.

Try...

apt-get samba-client

.... or something similar. (I'm not really familiar with Ubuntu's
repositories.)

There are various ways of mounting a Samba share. Consult the
documentation for the Samba client package and the /man/ pages
for "mount" and "fstab" for further details.

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*Aragorn*
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