You've got me... Debian Linux serve Windows, How to?

Hi,

Debian has been a snap at getting on to a network and having it use
Windows shared folders. All you have to do is be connect and look at the
"My Computer" folder on the Desktop.

What does it take to do the reverse? Windows notes the Linux computer's
network is there. It is not able to get access do to permission concerns,
it says. What does one do to make Linus folders "shared" on a network?

Sincerely,

Gregory D. MELLOTT

"Gregory MELLOTT" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:43ea9c00$(E-Mail Removed):

> Hi,
>
> Debian has been a snap at getting on to a network and having it use
> Windows shared folders. All you have to do is be connect and look at
> the "My Computer" folder on the Desktop.
>
> What does it take to do the reverse? Windows notes the Linux
> computer's
> network is there. It is not able to get access do to permission
> concerns, it says. What does one do to make Linus folders "shared" on a
> network?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Gregory D. MELLOTT
>
>
>

Samber server versus Samba client. The Samba client is what you are using
to access the Windows shares. You have to have the Samba server daemon
running on your Linux PC and have it configured appropriately to work the
other way around.

http://us5.samba.org/samba/

Klazmon.

Gregory MELLOTT wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Debian has been a snap at getting on to a network and having it use
> Windows shared folders. All you have to do is be connect and look at the
> "My Computer" folder on the Desktop.
>
> What does it take to do the reverse? Windows notes the Linux computer's
> network is there. It is not able to get access do to permission concerns,
> it says. What does one do to make Linus folders "shared" on a network?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Gregory D. MELLOTT

You need to install samba (apt-get install samba). Then edit
/etc/smb.conf according to the configurations you want.

Robert

Hi again,

Thank you both for your response. That saves me alot of time. I would
have been going in many unproductive directions.

Sincerely,

Gregory D. MELLOTT


>"Gregory MELLOTT" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:43ea9c00$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Debian has been a snap at getting on to a network and having it use
>> Windows shared folders. All you have to do is be connect and look at the
>> "My Computer" folder on the Desktop.
>>
>> What does it take to do the reverse? Windows notes the Linux
>> computer's network is there. It is not able to get access do to
>> permission concerns, it says. What does one do to make Linus folders
>> "shared" on a network?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Gregory D. MELLOTT
>
>
>Samber server versus Samba client. The Samba client is what you are using
>to access the Windows shares. You have to have the Samba server daemon
>running on your Linux PC and have it configured appropriately to work the
>other way around.
>
>http://us5.samba.org/samba/
>
>Klazmon.>
>
>
>You need to install samba (apt-get install samba). Then edit /etc/smb.conf
>according to the configurations you want.
>
>Robert
>

On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:05:07 -0700, Gregory MELLOTT wrote:

>
> Hi again,
>
> Thank you both for your response. That saves me alot of time. I would
> have been going in many unproductive directions.
>
> Sincerely,
>

There is a samba howto at www.tldp.org, and the entire text of the
O'Reilly samba book is available free online among their online books.