Sharing Windows environment with Linux using SAMBA:

Connecting LINUX box with Windows Box can be very handy while sharing documents from either side, and this can be achieved via SAMBA, there are some very good articles on the net on SAMBA, one of these articles is given below.

Learning the Samba
http://www.oreilly.de/catalog//samba/chapter/book/ch01.pdf

Today, i am going to show Mounting of Windows files on the Linux using SAMBA

1.On the Linux box, make sure under services, "SMB" is started. Go to start--Applications--system settngs---server settings--services--Check the SMB box and click start.

Usually, the script to start samba in a linux box is in one of the two following directories:

/etc/rc.d/init.d

or

/etc/init.d It might be called smb or samba.So, cd into the directory and: You start it with: ./samba start. or Just run ./samba Simply type:

]# service smb restart
]# service smb stop How to Configure Samba on RedHat Linux