LAN network Mandrake 8.2 to Win XP (home)

[anspg49a]

I'm struggling with trying to make Mandrake 8.2 & Win XP share resources on a LAN (all local) the system is an 850 Athalon with Win XP and a 350 Pentium with Mandrake Linux 8.2

both systems are connected to an ethernet hub which in turn is connected to a WAN DSL on the internet....both systems access the internet fine...both systems can ping each other successfully

If I use IE on the win XP box I can view the hub's configuration and I see both machines in the DHCP server client list

I know there are some tools samba swat komba etc that are supposed to let me set up this stuff but I keep getting bogged down with all the IP's and I have not been able to or find swat in either KDE or Gnome desktops....

smbclient -L winxp shows the group in windows but not in linux

web browsing does nothing....I have seen lots of references to correct this problem in Redhat but not in Mandrake most of the suggested solutions for redhat do not work in Mandrake...

one example.... rpm -ivh samba-swat yields "open of samba-swat failed" error

any suggestions specifically for Mandrake 8.2 would be very much appreciated

[michaelk]

For documentation on samba goto www.samba.org

swat is a tool to configure the smb.conf file via a web browser. Check the services in the control center to make sure that swat and smb are running.
In a web broswer type in for the url http:/localhost:901.

If everything works it will ask you to login.
Use your root/password.

smbclient -L linuxboxname

Will will show the browseable linux shares.

The windows DOS command:
net view \\linuxbox

Will show the linux shares from the XP box.