Woo-hoo! Linux sees my network! Now how do I see Linux from XP?

Hello,

I just put a nic card in my Linux Laptop, booted up and into Linux and
it saw my network and cable internet connection without any problem!

Now the question that I have is how can I check to see if Windows
XP/ME/98Se can see my Linux Laptop? I don't know what my machine's name
is, or how to map to it. It doesn't show up when I browse the network
with XP. (haven't tried the others) Does anyone know what to do from
here? I can ping the Linux Laptop...

(Red-Hat 9.0)

Thanks

Dave

On 2005-02-22, XxLicherxX <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> Now the question that I have is how can I check to see if Windows
> XP/ME/98Se can see my Linux Laptop?

Define "see".

> It doesn't show up when I browse the network with XP.

That's a Samba thing. Install and configure Samba if that's what you
want, but I'd define "see" first. What exactly do you want to do? If
you want to simply copy files, you can use an scp client, for example.
If you want to do something else, you'll need to tell us.

--keith

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On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:09:51 -0800, XxLicherxX wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just put a nic card in my Linux Laptop, booted up and into Linux and
> it saw my network and cable internet connection without any problem!
>
> Now the question that I have is how can I check to see if Windows
> XP/ME/98Se can see my Linux Laptop? I don't know what my machine's name
> is, or how to map to it. It doesn't show up when I browse the network
> with XP. (haven't tried the others) Does anyone know what to do from
> here? I can ping the Linux Laptop...
>
> (Red-Hat 9.0)
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave

There is a samba howto at www.tdlp.org (if it's not installed on your
Linux distro) and the O'Reilly samba book is available free online.