home networking....

[Tez]

Ron wrote:
> 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
>   
You will have the samba-client package installed as default but if you
want you XP machine to access files on your Kubuntu box then you will
need to install the package "samba", you may also want smbclient and smbfs.

When you have installed samba you can configure it in kcontrol, you'll
need to set the workgroup you want to belong to (MSHOME is default for
XP), set the NetBIOS name (the name of your Kubuntu box) and you can set
the server string (equivalent to machine description in XP).
Then you will need to set the security level, you will probably only
want ether User or Share you can find out more on the different levels
at: http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#SECURITY

if you have multiple interfaces on your Kubuntu box you may also want to
look at "Interfaces" section in the "Advanced" tab and put something
like "eth0, lo" and replace "eth0" with your INTERNAL network interface,
and check the box where it says "Bind interfaces only"//. This will make
samba only listen on the internal network and stop people being able to
connect to (or try to connect to) your shares.

Tez