Windows/Ubuntu system

I have one computer using Ubuntu. The other computers are Windows XP. I
can see the Windows XP computers and access the shares from within Ubuntu,
but I cannot access any shares in Ubuntu from Windows. I can browse in
Windows Networks and see the Ubuntu computer, but I can't access any shared
folders.

What do I need to do? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Patty

Patty <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> What do I need to do? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Have a look at my notes.

http://markhobley.yi.org/linux/samba/index.html

Regards,

Mark.

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On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:08:02 GMT, Mark Hobley wrote:

> Patty <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> What do I need to do? Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Have a look at my notes.
>
> http://markhobley.yi.org/linux/samba/index.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark.

I didn't install the Samba server software, just the basic samba stuff that
installed with Ubuntu when I tried to share a folder. Is that the same
thing?

Thanks so much!

Patty

In article <k0wuwji4nfrk$.45r4i6ece7iz$.(E-Mail Removed)>, Patty wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:08:02 GMT, Mark Hobley wrote:
>
>> Patty <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> What do I need to do? Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Have a look at my notes.
>>
>> http://markhobley.yi.org/linux/samba/index.html
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mark.
>
> I didn't install the Samba server software, just the basic samba stuff that
> installed with Ubuntu when I tried to share a folder. Is that the same
> thing?

[...]

No, you must install a samba server if you want to share Unix > Windows

Goodluck

Kees
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Kees de Koster wrote:

> No, you must install a samba server if you want to share Unix > Windows
>

Yes - Samba effectively has 3 useful parts:

smbclient to connect "by hand" to a random SMB share
smbfs to mount a remote SMB share onto the linux box
server to present SMB shares.

Cheers

Tim

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:15:03 +0200, Kees de Koster wrote:

> In article <k0wuwji4nfrk$.45r4i6ece7iz$.(E-Mail Removed)>, Patty wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:08:02 GMT, Mark Hobley wrote:
>>
>>> Patty <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What do I need to do? Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Have a look at my notes.
>>>
>>> http://markhobley.yi.org/linux/samba/index.html
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Mark.
>>
>> I didn't install the Samba server software, just the basic samba stuff that
>> installed with Ubuntu when I tried to share a folder. Is that the same
>> thing?
>
> [...]
>
> No, you must install a samba server if you want to share Unix > Windows
>
> Goodluck
>
> Kees

It's all working now. Ubuntu installs samba when you try to share files, I
don't know that it's the full samba server, but it does install a version
of samba. Two things I needed to do to get it to work. Change all the
instances of Domain name to the Windows workgroup name and set upd a samba
user/password. Now it works. All my windows computers can see Ubuntu and
access any shared folders. And, Ubuntu sees and accesses Windows too.

Thanks again!

Patty