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  1. 10-02-2006 #1
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    Networking with Windows.

    Newbie here. I have two computers at home, on is XP the other is Debian Sarge. How can I network them so that I can transfer info between them? They are currently connected via a router.
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    Quote Originally Posted by schmity
    Newbie here. I have two computers at home, on is XP the other is Debian Sarge. How can I network them so that I can transfer info between them? They are currently connected via a router.
    You need to install Samba on the debian.
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    The tool you need is called Samba, but an easier way is using CIFS (Common Internel File Sharing) but not sure if it is enabled in Ubuntu

    CIFS:

    mount -t cifs //computername/share /mnt/<somedirectory>

    where some directory should be an existing folder.

    Samba

    Refer to the Samba part of this tutorial Here
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    Ok. As root user I did

    apt-get install samba samba-client

    And this is what I Got.

    Setting up samba (3.0.14a-3sarge2) ...
    Generating /etc/default/samba...
    TDBSAM version too old (0), trying to convert it.
    TDBSAM converted successfully.
    account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 1 (min password length), returning 0
    account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 2 (password history), returning 0
    account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 3 (user must logon to change password), returning 0
    account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 4 (maximum password age),returning 0
    account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 5 (minimum password age),returning 0
    account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 6 (lockout duration), returning 0
    account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 7 (reset count minutes), returning 0
    account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 8 (bad lockout attempt), returning 0
    account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 9 (disconnect time), returning 0
    account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 10 (refuse machine password change), returning 0
    Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd.

    Setting up smbclient (3.0.14a-3sarge2) ...
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    If any of your windows computers have shared directories,
    open the file manager on debian (whatever it is called),
    select go from the menu, and go to network drives,
    and your shares should already be there.

    To share directories on the linux box, google for smb.conf
    for examples of configuration files.

    http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/manp...mb.conf.5.html
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    In Konqueror when I look at the Network all I see is "FTP Archives" and "Web Sites". Man I'm lost on this one. All the tutorials I've seen are different. Where do I Start?
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