Re: Windows XP Home Edition - File sharing

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From: Thomas Gommes (tom_at_gommes.org)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 00:55:41 +0200

Hi Ron,

good to hear, Samba was my prefered solution. I can ping hosts from both
sides and the Windows client receives correct IP address, DNS and WINS
address.

Setting the workgroup and computer name under "My computer ->
Properties" seems OK (I guess; no error message). When I try to map a
network drive and browse to it I can scroll down up to the workgroup but
cannot see the share.

I tried executing "net use \\SMB_SRV" on the XP client and it returned
error 53 "no network path found " (approwimate translation; not sure
what is the exact error in English). Ping works OK between the two as
well as name resolution; I switched off firewalls on both sides on the
LAN an IP routing is OK.

Thanks,

Tom

Ron Lowe wrote:
> "Thomas Gommes" <tom@gommes.org> wrote in message
> news:414b0617$0$853$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be...
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I have set up a home network with a Linux server connected to the
>> internet and acting as a file/print server for two workstations
>> running Windows XP Home edition. I was planning to use Samba for
>> setting up network drives but I discovered that smb is not supported
>> by XP home edition. Since I do not want to upgrade to the profesional
>> edition.
>>
>> Is there any other way of sharing files with such configuration. I was
>> thinking of using NFS but I would be surprised if supported by XP Home.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Tom
>
>
>
> SMB is used by XP Home for File and print sharing.
> Wherever you "discovered" that is wrong.
>
> Have you tried to set it up?
> If so, what works and what doesn't?
> What error messages do you get?
>

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