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Samba network on Puppy

Posted: Tue 18 Jan 2011, 01:20
by autumnleaves
I am new to Linux and have installed Puppy 5.2 on a computer that is networked with a Windows XP machine. A drive on the XP machine is set to be shared, and Pnethood is able to see and connect to the shared drive. I would like to share a drive on the Puppy machine with the XP machine, but can find no straightforward way to do this. I have tried to follow some of the threads but my attempts to perform the steps produce error messages and end in failure.
Is there a simple way to share a drive on the Puppy machine?

Thanks for any assistance.

Posted: Tue 18 Jan 2011, 02:05
by rcrsn51
Is there a simple way to share a drive on the Puppy machine?
What have you tried and what problems arose?

Samba network on Puppy

Posted: Tue 18 Jan 2011, 03:07
by autumnleaves
I tried to follow a tutorial from this forum, though it was for an older version of Puppy and Samba. The mkdir command could not execute. And when I edited a new conf file the testparm command produced errors. Also couldn't restart Samba. I can't remember exactly what. Isn't there a GUI to do this? Thanks.

Posted: Tue 18 Jan 2011, 03:39
by rcrsn51
Have you read this thread?

Samba network on Puppy

Posted: Tue 18 Jan 2011, 03:58
by autumnleaves
Haven't seen that one. Will have a look in the morning. Thanks,