I've just installed 6.06 on a desktop unit, and I'm trying to get it networked with my windowsXP laptop again. I've had Breezy networked with the XP computer before, but it was more through dumb luck than anything else. Currently, I can access the windows computer shares from the linux computer, but the windows computer completely ignores the linux box. On the linux box, I have the workgroup name set to the same as the windows, I have a designated shares folder, and it is set to public. Am I forgetting something? Also, under kcontrol, filesharing is grayed out, am I missing a package needed for sharing with windows?
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Re: One way street network
Hi,
Yes, you should use samba, look in adept you should be able to find all packages to install, then in kcontrol, you should be able to configure it (even from systemsettings)
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Adept says I have samba installed, and with no updates available. In fact, I can't find anything that Adept says I *don't* have installed. Which seems odd to me at least. And even with it supposedly installed, I can't access it through system settings, nor kcontrol. Even using the Alt+F2. When I put in my password through the menu access, the box comes back up, still grayed out, but the administrater button becomes grayed out as well.Comment
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Re: One way street network
I don't know why adept is behaving like this, it's really strange...
Did you enable all repos ?
To be sure samba is installed, you can at least type smb://ip_of_a_windows/
and check that you have access...
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well, directory not found. I don't have anything important on the machine. I'm going to try and reinstall it. Perhaps just a bug in the installation. I went into adept, and uninstalled samba, and it wouldnt let me reinstall it. Perhaps it was something in the adept package manager.
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Also, I forgot to ask. I don't even know what repos are
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Re: One way street network
Hi,
In fact it seems to be installed by default, you can try to see by typing in a konsole :
sudo nmblookup *
I've seen a recent post from novgrov who was pointing to this tutorial : http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplan...orials/2047/2/ maybe it will be helpful for you.
You should check how to configure samba to let access from windows, I don't remember how to do this, maybe you will find it in this tutos...
For repos, it's repository in fact, it's all entry you have in the /etc/apt/sources.list and which let you upgrade and update your system by apt-get command or adept gui, is it better ?
If adept is not letting your reinstall, try to install it by apt-get :
Then if you get an error, please post it.Code:sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install samba
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Re: One way street network
Alright, tried that. (removing the extra &) and it tells me that it's not available with this message:
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package samba is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
smbclient samba-common
So, I retype the command, substituting the new package name and it tells me:
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
smbclient is already the newest version.
samba-common is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
That it's already installed. But it's staying grayed out.
Note, that I have not yet gone to that tutorial, I'm just posting this right now, for anyone trying to keep up with this as well. I'll report again when I've found more.
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