Viewing Linux Shares on Windows Computer

I am a complete Linux newbie. I have a three computer network, i.e.
two Windows XP machines and one Linux Fedora Core 2 machine. Samba is
installed on the linux machine. I am able to see the Windows shares on
the Linux machine but I cannot see Linux shares on the Windows machines.
What do I need to do to see the Linux Shares on the Windows machine?

Thanks

Douglas Pierre wrote:

> I am a complete Linux newbie. I have a three computer network, i.e.
> two Windows XP machines and one Linux Fedora Core 2 machine. Samba is
> installed on the linux machine. I am able to see the Windows shares on
> the Linux machine but I cannot see Linux shares on the Windows machines.
> What do I need to do to see the Linux Shares on the Windows machine?
>
> Thanks

Click Start/ Run and type

\\the_linux_machine's_ip_address

So if the IP of the Linux box is 192.168.100.100, you'd click Start/ Run and
type

\\192.168.100.100

This can also be typed into the address bar of My Computer/Internet
Explorer.

I assume that you'll use the username and password of your login account.

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:22:26 +0000, Douglas Pierre wrote:

> I am a complete Linux newbie. I have a three computer network, i.e.
> two Windows XP machines and one Linux Fedora Core 2 machine. Samba is
> installed on the linux machine. I am able to see the Windows shares on
> the Linux machine but I cannot see Linux shares on the Windows machines.
> What do I need to do to see the Linux Shares on the Windows machine?

You don't see the Linux machine in "My Network"? You should have an icon
there for "Global Network"?? I find I sometimes have to click on that to
"find" the Linux/Solaris stuff. I'm drifting pretty far away from Windoze
(never a big fan) so don't take my Windoze folder/icon names too literally.

I assume that on the Linux machine you have:
* defined some shares in /etc/samba/smb.conf?
* started the smb,nmb daemons with /etc/init.d/smb start?

Or have done something equivalent?
On Linux you should see some process(es) for both:
pgrep -l smb
pgrep -l nmb

Otherwise your samba server is not running on Linux.
Then again on Linux try

smbclient -L localhost
smbclient -L <linuxservername>

They should both show what the Linux samba is trying to output.
Then see if you can find the same resources looking from Windoze?

--
Juhan Leemet
Logicognosis, Inc.