home networking....

[Ron]

Thank you for the response.  I did what you suggested and found samba in 
kcontrol.  I changed a few things, but I was mainly flying blind and, not 
surprisingly, it didn't work.  Since I found samba in kcontrol, does that 
mean that samba is installed?  Do I still need to install Samba?  Also, when 
I search for shares in kcontrol, it shows something, but it doesn't allow me 
to change anything even if I put in the root password.  If you would like, I 
can post screen shots of what I have.  Not sure if that would be a lot of 
help to you though.

Ron

On Tuesday 13 June 2006 7:19 pm, Art Alexion wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 June 2006 17:30, Ron wrote:
> > I have a desktop computer that I have running Kubuntu 6.06 and a laptop
> > that I have running Windows XP.  I have a number of files on my desktop
> > that I would like to be able to view on my XP machine.  I heard that this
> > was possible, but I have no idea how I would go about setting this up.
> > Could someone please explain, in detail, how I would go about doing this?
> > I am relatively new to Linux and completely new to Kubuntu and KDE.
>
> You are looking to use Samba, a network protocol that allows Linux, Win and
> Mac communicate.  Procedures have changed since I first set it up, but I
> think it is in the KDE Control Panel.  In the kcontrol search bar, search
> for "samba" "shares" & "windows" to get to the tools to set it up.
>
> You may need more help once you've started, so don't hesitate to ask.  I am
> reluctant to give you a step by step, because I used swat to set it up and
> swat is disabled in [k]ubuntu.