Re: Setting up network

[Bill Tetens <zuki269@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well I have been looking at samba and installing it is a clear as mud. 
I have read a bunch but have not gotten any real help about how to 
install it.  Will keep trying and hope for the best. I hope you are 
right and it is doable.

Thanks

ml@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Bill,
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> > I got the IP address of one of the other computers and then went to
> > the Linux machine and used the terminal window and pinged the windows 
> > computer and got a repeating message as follows
> >
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.123.100 and etc.
> > That is the IP address of the windows computer and I assume it was 
> > seeing it.
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> good. So you have a network connection between these boxes.
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> > What I meant by seeing the other computers was with windows you have a
> > network window that shows all the networked computers and when you
> > click on one it show what is being shared and you can click on that
> > icon and get into the drive or whatever is being shared.
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> I expected that you mean such a thing. It is doable, but it's not easy.
> You must install samba on the FC2 Box. Best if you search the internet
> or the Red Hat documentation for Howtos. If you get stuck this list will
> help you.
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> Good luck
> Volker