Sharing files in linux-windows enviroment

[hanif shaikh]

Dear All,

I have Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.
i am able to ping windows XP and vice versa how can i share a folder in linux box and
use in windows and how can i use windows shared folder in ubuntu.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thankx all.

[hanif shaikh]

I get this error

hanif@hanif-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude install samba samba-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Setting up samba (3.0.22-1ubuntu3.6) ...
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/rc2.d/K09samba is not a link to ../init.d/samba or /etc/init.d/samba
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/rc3.d/K09samba is not a link to ../init.d/samba or /etc/init.d/samba
invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/K09samba
dpkg: error processing samba (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 102
Errors were encountered while processing:
samba
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up samba (3.0.22-1ubuntu3.6) ...
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/rc2.d/K09samba is not a link to ../init.d/samba or /etc/init.d/samba
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/rc3.d/K09samba is not a link to ../init.d/samba or /etc/init.d/samba
invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/K09samba
dpkg: error processing samba (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 102
Errors were encountered while processing:
samba

[Lazydog]

Have a look at samba and samba-client

samba for sharing the linux disk to the windows box

samba-client for accessing the windows share from the linux box.