Networking two laptops

Hi all,

I have two laptops at home that share a wireless router for Internet access.
One is happily running SuSE Linux 10.1 while the other is running windos XP
Home.

Since both are in the same subsegment, they can ping each other fine.

Q: Without making the Linux laptop a Samba server, how else could I access
the files in the windos laptop?

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

aww.

I think your SuSE Linux 10.1 has a FTP daemon. You can use your Win
machine's browser to access linux machine. That's the poor man's tool
where you don't have to use samba!

--
Raqueeb Hassan
Bangladesh


AWW wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have two laptops at home that share a wireless router for Internet access.
> One is happily running SuSE Linux 10.1 while the other is running windos XP
> Home.
>
> Since both are in the same subsegment, they can ping each other fine.
>
> Q: Without making the Linux laptop a Samba server, how else could I access
> the files in the windos laptop?
>
> Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
>
> aww.

In news:B15kg.8168$(E-Mail Removed),
AWW <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Q: Without making the Linux laptop a Samba server, how else could I access
> the files in the windos laptop?
>
> Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

As root:

# mkdir /mnt/windos
# mount -t smbfs //xp/sharename /mnt/windos \
-o username=xpusername,uid=linuxuid,gid=linuxuid

ynotssor wrote:

> AWW <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Q: Without making the Linux laptop a Samba server, how else could I
>> access the files in the windos laptop?

>> Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

> As root:
>
> # mkdir /mnt/windos
> # mount -t smbfs //xp/sharename /mnt/windos \
> -o username=xpusername,uid=linuxuid,gid=linuxuid

If you prefer a GUI, then "LinNeighborhood" might be useful.
<http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/index.html>

HTH
Roland

You could always turn on apache and throw the files in the home
directory. Then you could hit the directory via http.

Also, you could use FTP, TFTP, SFTP, or SCP.

I use apache to put stuff over on my xp box, cause my roomates know how
to use a web browser, and they can just point and click to get certain
stuff saved over. Makes it pretty easy.

-Tg



AWW wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have two laptops at home that share a wireless router for Internet access.
> One is happily running SuSE Linux 10.1 while the other is running windos XP
> Home.
>
> Since both are in the same subsegment, they can ping each other fine.
>
> Q: Without making the Linux laptop a Samba server, how else could I access
> the files in the windos laptop?
>
> Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
>
> aww.

Roland Schulte-Osthoff wrote:

> ynotssor wrote:
>
>> AWW <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>> Q: Without making the Linux laptop a Samba server, how else could I
>>> access the files in the windos laptop?
>
>>> Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
>
>> As root:
>>
>> # mkdir /mnt/windos
>> # mount -t smbfs //xp/sharename /mnt/windos \
>> -o username=xpusername,uid=linuxuid,gid=linuxuid
>
> If you prefer a GUI, then "LinNeighborhood" might be useful.
> <http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/index.html>
>
> HTH
> Roland

Thank you, but with KDE under SuSE 10.1, I can see all Samba shares natively
with Konqueror. I was just hoping to bypass the smb server and access the
windos machine directly: My Samba server does not have wifi capabilities,
which is how the laptops can ping each other.

AWW <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:B15kg.8168$(E-Mail Removed):

> Hi all,
>
> I have two laptops at home that share a wireless router for Internet
> access. One is happily running SuSE Linux 10.1 while the other is
> running windos XP Home.
>
> Since both are in the same subsegment, they can ping each other fine.
>
> Q: Without making the Linux laptop a Samba server, how else could I
> access the files in the windos laptop?

You don't need the linux laptop to be a Samba server to do that. the Samba
client will do just fine going that way around.

Klazmon.


>
> Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
>
> aww.

AWW wrote:

> Roland Schulte-Osthoff wrote:

>>>> Q: Without making the Linux laptop a Samba server, how else could
>>>> I access the files in the windos laptop?
^^

Sorry, perhaps I misunderstood you. CMIIW, but I assumed you wanted to
access the files, which reside on the windows box from your
Linux-Box. In this case you don't need a samba server. Just make
shure, that smbfs is part of your kernel (either directly compiled in
or as a module).
Then you can mount the windows shares (like ynotssor wrote in
<news:(E-Mail Removed)>) to put and get files to/from
the windows box.

My sugestion (LinNeighborhood) is just a GUI-wrap for the cmdline.

> Thank you, but with KDE under SuSE 10.1, I can see all Samba shares
> natively with Konqueror. I was just hoping to bypass the smb server
> and access the windos machine directly: My Samba server does not
> have wifi capabilities, which is how the laptops can ping each
> other.

AFAIK you don't need a samba _server_ on your Linux-box to access the
windows shares.

What did I get wrong?

regards
Roland

AWW wrote:

> Roland Schulte-Osthoff wrote:

>>>> Q: Without making the Linux laptop a Samba server, how else could
>>>> I access the files in the windos laptop?
^^

Sorry, perhaps I misunderstood you. CMIIW, but I assumed you wanted to
access the files, which reside on the windows box from your
Linux-Box. In this case you don't need a samba server. Just make
sure, that smbfs is part of your kernel (either directly compiled in
or as a module).
Then you can mount the windows shares (like ynotssor wrote in
<news:(E-Mail Removed)>) to put and get files to/from
the windows box.

My sugestion (LinNeighborhood) is just a GUI-wrap for the cmdline.

> Thank you, but with KDE under SuSE 10.1, I can see all Samba shares
> natively with Konqueror. I was just hoping to bypass the smb server
> and access the windos machine directly: My Samba server does not
> have wifi capabilities, which is how the laptops can ping each
> other.

AFAIK you don't need a samba _server_ on your Linux-box to access the
windows shares.

What did I get wrong?

regards
Roland

In news:(E-Mail Removed),
Roland Schulte-Osthoff <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>> Thank you, but with KDE under SuSE 10.1, I can see all Samba shares
>> natively with Konqueror. I was just hoping to bypass the smb server
>> and access the windos machine directly: My Samba server does not
>> have wifi capabilities, which is how the laptops can ping each
>> other.
>
> AFAIK you don't need a samba _server_ on your Linux-box to access the
> windows shares.
>
> What did I get wrong?

Nothing, the OP is merely confused.