Win98-Linux mandrake network

[phiber]

now i have 2 computer with windows on one and madrake on the other how can i transfer files between them? they are connected by a router

[Jon]

Probably need to use something like Samba so they can see each other's shares.

[phiber]

Originally posted by Jon
Probably need to use something like Samba so they can see each other's shares.
umm.. how would i get samba to work? i think mandrake has it included i turn it on but what should i do?

[Jon]

Don't completely remember all the specifics so I found a website that looks to have a complete guide on how to set it up using Windows. Hope this (http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/laboratory/samba.shtml) helps some.

[dugans]

I haven't done it in quite a while, but at one point I had Samba running on Corel Linux in a WinNT/Win98 network. It was a pain to configure and get it running on startup, but once it was up, it was seamless: no problems at all.

That was a couple years ago, and I know there was a lot of work being done on gui frontends and auto-installers at the time so it may be a lot easier to get it running now.
I used www.samba.org for references and help (as well as the included docs.)

It ain't easy to set up, but if you want to use Linux/ ms products together it's great.

Good Luck!

[phiber]

i am going to replace it with Win98
i dont have time to configure it