Let PCLinuxOS folders be seen on Windows LAN

[longtom]

Hi,

I got it right in a debian based distro but somehow struggle to get the same going in PCLinuxOS.

1. How can I share selected folders over a LAN network consisting of Windows PCs.  I can see all, managed to share permanently what I wanted to share but nobody can access me.

2. I see a "localhost(localhost)" icon on the Windows network but can not access it.  I also would like to change the name to something more appropriate.

Any help will be appreciated.

[Xero]

Have you setup your samba sharing in the Control Center?

[longtom]

I have followed your article in one of the recent PCLinux magazines.  I guess samba shares are than installed?  Maybe you want to give me just a peep of how to do that so I can confirm I have done the correct thing?

[russell.eberhardt]

2. I see a "localhost(localhost)" icon on the Windows network but can not access it.  I also would like to change the name to something more appropriate.

Any help will be appreciated.

PCC > Network & Internet > Hosts definitions
Leave the IP address, change the Host name to whatever you like, set Hosts Aliases to localhost.

Russell.

[longtom]

Thanks for all your help.  Somehow the PC and the shares show on some Windows machines and not on others, as if it takes a bit of time to get through the system.

I'll give it another few hours and see what it does.  I don't mark this as solved yet, but it is definitely improving.

[MBantz]

Just tried the same here - using samba.

I also just changed the localhost as described, ran the config from the menu in Samba server in PCC - but it did not work until I installed nss_wins on the client to resolve netbios names to tcpip addresses. Now I just wonder why this is not installed as an requirement to samba-client.

Got an unnecessarily complicated description googling around on how and if it is possible to run samba without netbios, still trying to find a more understandable description.

ON the other hand - NFS has worked terribly bad for the past many years here - stalls, hangups, slow throughput and other peculiarities. Used samba for 5 minutes and could watch high-end h.264 video over samba - for now I for surely stick with Samba - guess it's more supported than NFS,

cheers,
MBantz

[longtom]

That did it - no more hit and miss.  Thank you very much!

I do agree that nss_wins with its barely 900kb should possibly be fit in on the cd or coming with the samba client.  Maybe you could make the necessary noises in the suggestions thread?  Or should I?

Thanks again!

[MBantz]

I think I'll just package it and send it to Tex - it seems like a general issue. Meanwhile I try to find out why it's not included,

stay tuned :-)

cheers,
MBantz

[wayne1932]

I have a home network of five computers.  My Desktop and Laptop, My wife's Desktop and Laptop, and My garage experimental machine where I play with different distros etc.  Wife uses WinXP.  Setting up samba so every computer can see and write to all others, has always been a hit or miss thing for me.  I just have to keep trying, the instructions I have found on the PCLOS wiki, and around the internet are just confusing.  With every new version of samba or PCLOS of course it's a moving target.

I keep thinking that I'm gonna write up a step by step procedure, but I'm never happy with what i find that works or doesn't. 

[MBantz]

Hi Wayne,

for me it was just the nss_wins package that missed - so combined with the pclinux magazine sep. 09 description it should be well.

There is a task-samba in the repository that make sure all dependencies are installed for Samba, I didn't know that until recently.

I will try it out (when I do a reinstall) - if you or anyone tries it first - please let me know if it work out for you. When one of my larger projects are well in the repos I plan to look hard at the Samba rpm package,

cheers,
MBantz