Stephane wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a Toshiba M50 laptop running XP Home Edition. It works fine.
> Now, I need to connect to a Linux PC using Samba. With XP Home, I can
> see
> the Linux PC on my network, but i can't connect to this PC. I found
> help on connecting XP to Samba but it seems I need XP Pro !

You do not need to have XP Pro to connect to a Linux box using Samba.
You haven't got Samba set up right. I have an XP Home laptop that
connects just fine to my Linux machines. Things to do:

1. On Linux, properly configure Samba with your Windows Workgroup
information. Have both the nmb and smb daemons run at boot in Levels 3
and 5. It will depend on your distro how you do this with the gui, but
you can always edit smb.conf.

2. On Linux, create a user account/password that is identical to the one
on the XP Home box. If you do not have a password assigned on the XP
user account, assign one. You also need to create a Samba user. Open a
console and:

su [enter]
(enter root password)
root@box>smbpasswd -a username [enter]
prompt will ask for password - enter user's password carefully (no
asterisks will be shown).
prompt to confirm password by typing it again

3. Create shares as desired, setting permissions as desired. You can do
this easily through a gui, but exact steps depend on what window
manager you are using (KDE, Gnome, Blackbox, etc.).

4. On XP, properly configure any firewall to allow the lan traffic as
trusted and create shares, if desired.

For more specific information about Samba, go to
http://us4.samba.org/samba/

But again, you do *not* need XP Pro to connect to a *nix box. I have
Win98, 2k, XP Pro/Home machines that happily connect to the SuSE boxen.
They can share printers, too.

Malke
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