Linux networking

[Rifter]

How do i access my dads win2k box with linux? i used to be running win98 and it was easy, the network is not tcp/ip it uses netbuei for file sharing, how do i access it?

 

[Cyph3r]

You'll have to enable SAMBA on your Linux machine. Once you do that, you can easily access your dad's machine with the usual //w2kmachine mechanism.

In most cases, you just need to do "/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start" to get going. The default SAMBA settings should be fine for you..Regards

 

[Rifter]

tried that, it fails, something about user must have id of 0 or something like that. how do i configure it? like tell it my user and pass for my dads comp??

 

[Damaged]

mount -t smbfs \\<whatever> <mountpoint>

<edit>Crap! I forgot you probably have to give it a username and a password. Sooo...man mount</edit>

 

[Rifter]

Quick question, is there a GUI for it? where i can enter data? i've got little(read NO) Linux cammand line experiance 🙂

 

[Damaged]

LinNeighborhood for mounting/connecting to shares. SWAT (SAMBA Web Admnistration Tool) to administer SAMBA.

 

[Rifter]

are they free?????? and where can i get them?????

 

[Damaged]

Yup free. You probably have LinNeighborhood on your Mandrake CD. If not go here:

Scroll Down the Page and You'll see it There.

SWAT comes with SAMBA. Just do a man swat and it'll tell you what to do.

 

[gazeglow]

just a quick note about SWAT...

securityportal.com just announced that SWAT has a number of bugs and security exploit problems. you can get patches at the site, i believe.