Comments on: Cannot Access Shared Folders in Fedora with Windows XP http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/cannot-access-shared-folders/ Sat, 25 May 2013 13:28:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: brydell http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/cannot-access-shared-folders/#comment-85529 brydell Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:21:28 +0000 #comment-85529 All this talk about SAMBA server is off the point. The question was “How can I access an XP drive from Fedora”, not “How can I serv up an XP drove using Fedora”.

To access any WIn drive from Fedora, you need to install Samba-Client.
Then mount the XP drive usinge type=cifs.
You may need to do the mounting via a shell/terminal, unless you are willin to put your password into the mount command.
You need to have a mount point, like /windows/XP
After the mount, you will see the files like any other files.
‘mount -t cifs //host/XP-name /windows/XP -o username=YourUser,workgroup=Your Group,file_mode=0777′

Good Luck!

]]> By: bharatsingh http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/cannot-access-shared-folders/#comment-85457 bharatsingh Thu, 16 Dec 2010 06:27:13 +0000 #comment-85457 What Aquacer has said above is perfectly alright but I feel to ask you some questions is SAMBA already installed if yes then is the SAMBA service up and running if yes has anyone changed the SAMBA config please check for these possibilities. Also install a helpful utility called webmin which will give you graphical user interface to manage your Fedora Server. By default your home directories are ( SAMBA share ) is always up and running but if it is asking for a password login as root and give a command called smbpasswd -a <username> it will as for a password insert the password and then try accesing your fedora box from xp machine

]]> By: petkoa http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/cannot-access-shared-folders/#comment-78178 petkoa Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:46:34 +0000 #comment-78178 In fact, if your colleague runs Gnome desktop on Fedora, there is no need in running samba if she wants just to access shared resources on other PCs. She’ll need samba only if she wants to export some resources.

Otherwise, Gnome has a way to enumerate workgroups, computers and shared folders without samba daemons, even without smbclient. One need to set workgroup not in smb.conf (which is missing if you have no samba installed) but in gconf editor…

I’m not even sure should she need a cifs.mount or smbfs.mount programs for accessing shares – but if she wants to mount (semi)permanently some shares into the Linux directory tree, she’ll definitely need some of these “mounters”, though necessary kernel modules should be in place.

So – why the problem accessing shares? It could be a firewall issue or if you have domain authentication in place, she has no proper credentials set by the domain controller…

Good luck,

Petko

]]> By: willnottellyou http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/cannot-access-shared-folders/#comment-78158 willnottellyou Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:29:45 +0000 #comment-78158 What Aquacer has said above is perfectly alright but I feel to ask you some questions is SAMBA already installed if yes then is the SAMBA service up and running if yes has anyone changed the SAMBA config please check for these possibilities. Also install a helpful utility called webmin which will give you graphical user interface to manage your Fedora Server. By default your home directories are ( SAMBA share ) is always up and running but if it is asking for a password login as root and give a command called smbpasswd -a <username> it will as for a password insert the password and then try accesing your fedora box from xp machine

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