one week old user and samba

[art crazy]

Hi Everybody,
Like I said, I'm '1 week old' user, so don't kill me if this is stupid question,..... I like it (linux) and I know I missed the answer to my question somewhere along the lines, but...
I got 2 boxes - win xp pro & mandrake 8.1. I did setup samba, I can see lin box in win xp, I can read and write to it (from win) but I can't see anything from lin box - well let me take it back - I can see my win box (I just type smb://win-box) but when I try to go inside the folders, browser is just freezing?? I did find something called LinNeighborhood and it suppose to act like win network neigh... but I don't really want to use it - I'm tired of system trying to do everything for me (most of the time doing it wrong anyways).....

[cowanrl]

Here's a thread that should get you started accessing your WinXP box from Linux:

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42967&highlight=smbmount

The best way to do it is use the mount or smbmount command to mount the shares on your XP machine from Linux, then access the shares from the command line or from the GUI file manager of your choice.

If you do a search in this forum on smbmount and or smbclient, you'll find plenty of info on accessing Windows shares. There are also man pages available on those commands.