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[Brian Wiese]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 23:42:48 -0600
ktb <xyf at nixnotes.org> wrote:

|On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:10:43PM -0600, Brian Roberson wrote:
<snip>
|> Looking for help on LinNeighborhood
|> 
|> Does anyone know anything about an applet called "LinNeighborhood"? I
|> have a friend who is trying to setup a network between a PC and a Linux
|> box. He is mainly having trouble with the Samba server, he can see it
|> on the XP box but he cannot access it from the XP box. On the Linux
|> box, having trouble setting up the applet, it keeps asking a message,
|> "getext", then it stops responding. Any knowledge or help would be
|> greatly appreciated. 
|> 
|
|First off, the XP box needs to be running the professional addition in
|order to work with Samba.  If he is using the home addition it isn't
|going to work.

If you are running the samba server as a PDC, I believe you need XP pro to
log into a domain, but for regular network shares - XP home will work fine
(use it on my winxp-home laptop to mount a samba share all the time).

Other gnu/linux gui interfaces for smb network are available here:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/GUI/

I usually just prefer to use "smbclient -L //pcnetbiosname -U
username%password" to enumerate the network shares on a computer.  the -U
and user/pass combo is optional, only required if security is set as so on
the network share.

peace

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