All my documents are on a different windows computer which I used to access through our router. Ive found megamaceds topic explaining how to fileshare with windows but it doesnt really make much sense to me because its asking for usernames and passwords n stuff which I dont know. HOWTO: Setup Samba peer-to-peer with Windows - Ubuntu Forums Is the hostname the name of my windows pc? Are the username and passwords they ask for just a user on the windows machine which is allowed to access the shared file? Ive justy set one up called fileshare.... or does it need to be the same as my linux username? How do I find my linux box ip address?
firstly i don't know how to share files between Win & *nix Code: ifconfig then goto the NIC you want the IP of & it's the inet addr BTW: looking into *nix & Win file sharing Edit: BTW: hold on to something solid while reading this wiki page, as you will learn so fast you may leave yourself behind Edit: no, a username & password is suppose to be unique to a user, so, a user of a Win system could log on to a *nix system on the same network with their username & password & still access the same document avaible to him on Win (if they were not saved to a network drive & not the local HDD Edit: no, the host name is the name of the server of the network (mine is hayes.adsl) you set it in you router web-configurator
You need to create shares on your Linux box, via your /etc/samba/smb.conf file. Afterwards, you need a Samba account to access the share with; you can use the smbpasswd command to add Samba users and to set their passwords. If you have too much difficulty, you can always install Webmin or SWAT in order to do this through a webgui. That said, I prefer just using the normal built-in Samba tools, since they give you more control and are more reliable.
