Okay first and foremost, if there is a GUI for samba plz lemme know! Anyway, I downloaded the package from the main page, compiled it, installed it. I got as far as modifying the smb.conf file to set the WORKGROUP= to the same as my Windows Network. Then I checked the connection with one of my computers with smbclient -L name. So far so good, but now I'm lost... Doing everything by the shell for networking is a bit of a pain. So what I need help on and eventually need to acomplish: - how to actually connect and browse a shared windows network - how to mount one of the shared locations as a drive

This might be useful.

Actually, most people would probably tell you that editing the files manually is the "best" way, but you know what they say about opinions.

You didn't say what distro you were using, so I can't tell you if you already have something cool. A nice admin tool, though, is webmin, found here: http://www.webmin.com/

It's free, and it has a smb module you can install with it... actually, you can control just about everything on your computer with it. It includes its own simple little webserver and everything.

I am using Fedora-Core 4.

Will F, I checked out the documentation and didn't get very far...
I was hoping for a more clear explanation.

I don't need anything to special, I just need to be able to mount 2 drives from my windows network onto my linux box.

Quote: Original post by Halsafar
I am using Fedora-Core 4.

Check to see if Fedora Core ships with redhat-config-samba

There's also swat, which while mildly annoying to work with gets the job done. Most samba installations come with it, it just needs to be enabled.

Well, my experience with mounting Windows shares has been from the command-line, from a Gentoo-based distro, which goes a bit like this:

mkdir /mnt/blahmount -t smbfs //nameofwincomp/sharename /mnt/blahcd /mnt/blah // etc...

You need to configure Samba --with-smbmount. I have never compiled Samba, though, so I cannot tell you from experience. Had you asked a few months later, I might have been more knowledgeable.


jfl.

GUI for? You mean setting it up?

I personally like Webmin. It can be used to configure just about anything with a web browser.