home network

[fullback43]

how can i setup fedora so i can get on to my familys network? how do i set it up? i have fc4 and i neeed to get on to machines running xp pro.

[bytesniper]

first make sure smb and nmb is running. from a command line, as root, enter:
service smb status
if it says its running skip the next command, if its stopped enter:
service smb start
and it should start both smb and nmb

in kde: you can open konqueror and type smb://machine_name and authenticate in using a user/pass from the windows box your connecting to. to browse a windows network you can use lisa which you can configure from the kde control center

in gnome: no idea. i dont use it.

joseph

[fullback43]

hey thanks for the help but i am using gnome. and i tryied the other commands and none of them worked. if your wondering i did sign in as root.

[weinerdogus]

Do you have samba installed?
If no then as root, yum install samba
If yes, here (http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/sambaserver.shtml) is a how-to for configuring it to use in a home network.
gl

[bytesniper]

my bad i left something out of my last post. when you switch to root use su - (with the dash) so its sets up the path statement for root (including /sbin and /usr/sbin). either that or preface each one of those commands with /usr/sbin/service ...

sorry about that ;)

joseph