Share folder on LAN

[maitrayei]

I have an Intranet LAN running at my office with a WINDOWS Server. I am the only UBUNTU 8.10 user on the LAN. The problem is that everyone else is operating on SHARE folders and therefore is able to see the share folders.

Now though I am on the LAN am able to access the email on the LAN, the PROBLEM is that I can not see the other users on the LAN and therefore can not see their SHARED FOLDERS too.

Is there some method by which I can hook up on the LAN and see other USERS and their SHARED FOLDERS. Additionally if I can have a SHARED folder of mine too in which I can give USER level rights to individual users it would be amazing!!!!

May be I am asking for too much but then I always believed.... THINK BIG

[D-cat]

You need to look into Samba.

The samba client and frontends (like pyneighborhood) will allow you to browse the network shares by IP. If you have the samba libraries you can also use samba as a browser url (smb://ip.addy/share) in an integrated browser (nautilus, konqueror), doesn't work in 3rd party like firefox.

For making your own shares, you need to set up the samba daemon and probably a frontend to help configure it (Samba sharing in Linux, at least with proper permissions, is a pain). It would take me forever and a day to explain, but some others in the community already have:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba

Good luck!