Re: Connecting a Windows laptop to a Linux internal network

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:16:15 -0700, Ed wrote in message 
<[🔎] auto-000003350801@uccs.edu>:

>  
> 
> Hi There,
> 
> I have an internal Linux network.  I want to add a Windows XP
> Professional laptop to this network so that I can share files.  I am
> using SAMBA on the Unix side and think I have the global and share
> sections of smb.conf set up correctly, though maybe not.  I tried to
> find the Linux system using DOS Command Net View and only found the
> laptop, no Linux in site.  How have any of you made this type of
> connection?  Microsoft.com was not any help at all.

..dunno Wintendo myself, and I don't use Samba.  But next time you 
call Microsoft for help, grab them by their balls so it hurts, before
you
give up: "Are you trying to tell me I cannot use Microsoft Windows???",
"Can I quote you on Groklaw and the Letterman Show that I cannot use.."
etc.  ;o)

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.