connecting to multiple workgroupsForum: Networking Topic: connecting to multiple workgroups started by: spiravdaeg Posted by spiravdaeg on June 26 2006,12:16
After successfully installing DSL to an older machine's/pc's hard drive, I've had a bit of a brain-freeze as to connecting to my Linux and Windows network groups. I've gotten spoiled, I'll admit it. With my XandrOS and SimplyMEPIS pcs, connection to each other or the Windows Network was a breeze using XandroOS FIle Manager (Administrator mode) or Samba/SMB4K-SMB/CIFS Share Browser on the SimplyMEPIS pc. Sharing nothing more than setting some permissions/sharing dialogues. In DSL, after establishing my ethernet card connfiguration to 'ok' and in the console 'smbtree'ing and viewiing all the shares in both workgroups - I get stuck......again, brainfreeze, I know. Its just frustrating to be able to see the other pcs post-smbtree; just, not being able to reckon a way to access same or vice versa.How do I 1. give my DSL pc a unique name and include it in either of the two networks (or heck, let it start its own, I really don't care as long as its 'seen'), 2. share folders/files, 3. access the pcs in either/or of the two networks - Windows and Linux workgroups? [and of course, store all the above so that I don't have to re-enter after a reboot] Getting online, downloading updates using smbclient I've found pretty easy to accomplish. Its just I'm not thinking or not grasping some basic process I need to. (see, I again admit - cranius rectitus) Thanks whoever responds. Rather than asking for a typed out long response, if you know of a URL/page that I can go to - that'd be great. A "how-to remove your head from your tail" tutorial or something....a vaccination of sorts for the CR disease I'm suffering from. |