Networking Linux and Windows

For the life of me I can not figure out how to go about mounting my Windows share on my Linux box.I read somewhere that I needed to use Samba so I got that and I have no clue what to do.I am not very experienced with Linux and am using RedHat so if you could dumb it down and go through it step by step it would be great.Thanks alot.

first.. make sure the firewall rules on both windows and linux will allow them to communicate on all the desired ports.then make sure that data is actually getting through... try a ping (making sure the firewall is set yo allow pings on both windows and linux)next, install samba and configure it.... there are many ways, possibly the easyest is with konqueror or kde controll center (assuming you are using KDE)

If ping is working between both machines there is no problem in configuring samba. Generally configuration after install is good, but you must do some to allow windows user to log into linux samba. Create user on your linux system. After that when you're logging in (windows) you must enter username and passwrd of this user in linux. If you don't do that you won't have acces into samba files. Under linux just type smb:/ or something like that in your browser (try to find the proper command in man pages if smb:/ doesn't work).

Ok. Thanks guys. I can ping between the two. Now I just need to figure out how to configure samba.To the manual.

Ok. Thanks guys.  I can ping between the two.  Now I just need to figure out how to configure samba.

 

To the manual.

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ping shows the network is working... but thats not the end of it. you also make sure the correct ports are open on the firewalls.