How To Network Mandrake 9.0 to Windows XP

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Step 5

Setup LinNeighborhood

   Open LinNeighborhood. Click on the Prefs box toward the top of the screen. Enter your workgroup name and click the box next to Always scan as user.

Under the Miscellaneous tab click the box next to Memorize Mounted Shares / Remount on next Startup.

As Dams pointed out to me the "Remount on next Startup refers to the next LinNeighborhood startup"

Click Save and the Close.

Now double-click on  your workgroup and then double-click the name of the computer you are trying to connect to. That should expand the folders of that computer. You may or may not see the "hidden" shares (the ones with the $ sign next to them).

Double-click on the share you wish to access and it will be mounted. You can choose where you want to mount it in the resulting screen. Now go to the directory where you mounted the share and you should be able to access that share.

From the Windows XP side you should be able to browse to any directory that you shared on the Mandrake 9 computer. I normally don't have shares since I'm paranoid but I've opened up a bunch so you can see what they look like (Federation Outpost 1 (Localhost) is the Mandrake 9 computer):

If you have configured samba correctly you can also browse to your Windows shares using Konqueror. To do so type smb://computername/ or smb://computername/shareddirectory.

That's it! I hope this helped you.

Eric

Thanks to Dams for all his help!

Sources

Samba File Sharing for Linux

LinNeighborhood

and the manuals for the applications.

*note (posted 12-01-02)

#1 -A few people seem to have missed the point of this guide. My goal was to simplify the network process for newbies (read: Windows users). Most of these users want to browse to shares from both their Windows XP and Linux machines. They are not used to, or are intimidated by, having to type commands in a terminal window or edit system files (This is an idea I think hasn't sunk in to some long time Linux users. GUI, GUI, GUI.). As I stated before, the reason I included multiple (and sometimes redundant) tools in this guide was to expose them to (some of) the multiple tools available to them. My goal is the same as yours, to help make Linux a success

#2 -Several people have emailed me with comments made by (what I would consider to be) a Linux expert about my guide. I won't get into what you had to say about his comments! I will say that from what I have read he seems not to be aware of the unique problems presented by Windows XP and browsing both directions although he seems to indeed be very knowledgeable (more so than I). Don't let it bother you folks. Criticism, both positive and negative, is part of the game and I take no offense. That is how things get improved.

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