I can tell you from my experience that accessing and writing to a Linux box from a windows machine using Samba really does work, and it works with the configuration as it is nearly out of the box. I used RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 2 both successfully in the same way. I used user, rather than machine, authentication, so it involved creating users in /etc/samba/smbusers and passwords in /etc/samba/smbpasswd. The user id and password I used for the smbusers were the same as my Windows 2000 logon name/password. That was the hardest part. Anyone for filling us in on how to create new smbusers? I did it a couple of times but can't bring it to memory. Anyway, the Windows machines that needed to access the Linux box share were all part of a workgroup and not a domain. In /etc/samba/smb.conf I declared the Linux box to be part of the same workgroup. You could conceivably use the SWAT utility to configure samba, but I just went through the /etc/samba/smb.conf and changed the appropriate lines, and created new shares at the bottom of the file. If you look in /etc/samba/smb.conf you will see what I mean. I left most things at standard distribution settings. Be sure to create a copy of the original config file in case you need to retrace your steps. Once you tweak the config file and create the samba users and passwords, you should start the daemon: (in RedHat/Fedora) # service smb start And that should start two daemons, smb and nmb. The nmb is for netbios name resolution. Then you should see the new Linux Samba shares in "Network Neighborhood" in windows. Hope this at least gets you started. Bryan Zimmer BRYAN ZIMMER ----- Original Message ----- From: "Olwe Melwasul" <olwe at cpinternet.com> To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Access to Windows share from Linux > I'd like to do the same thing. Actually, I know about the Samba client > (not the Samba server) meant for "network browsing" and about LISA, the > daemon behind it. I'm guessing for programming there must be a Samba > "lib" somewhere on the Linux side that has a Samba client API. > > Olwe > > Larry Pint wrote: > > > I am a programmer, not a Linux OS expert, so please bear with me. > > > > I need to access a shared drive on a Windows 2003 Server from within a > > program running on a Linux box. I'm unable to figure out how to write > > to that drive. I suspect it has something to do with either Samba, > > which we have installed on the Linux machine, or mounting the Windows > > share on the Linux machine (or both). (Red Hat Linux version > > 2.4.20-8(?) Samba version 2.2.7a) > > > > Can someone tell me how to accomplish this? > > > > Thanks for any suggestions you can offer me. > > > > Larry Pint > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list