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raja53352

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Hi guys
I have installed redhat linux9 in my pc and now i want connect to Windows machine thru network how can i configured this. pls help me out
 
Get rid of Redhat Linux 9. It is ancient and you'll have a hell of a time getting anything working on it if you need packages.

What sort of n/w do you want? File access I suppose. First of all, does smbmount work?
 
you mean file sharing?

youll have to install and configure samba on linux machine for that

for pinging, itll be same as connecting 2 windoze machines, set their ip's under the same netmask
 
If he only wants to access windows computers from Linux, he'll need only the client component of Samba (i.e. the fs module) and not the server.
 
I guess redhat comes with the tool "redhat-config-samba", so try running it to set up your samba configuration, and then you need to enable the samba service.

But as KingKrool said, upgrading to a modern distro would ease things for you :)
 
RH9 may not have that tool. I'm pretty sure it used to be called something else back then, but admittedly, I used RH9 only very briefly.
 
Just checked it. It's indeed called "redhat-config-samba" in RHL 9.

U can also use smbmount or the following command to mount windows share folders:

mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,password=bar //ip/share-name /mount-point
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For e.g.

mount -t smbfs -o username=montylee,password=nocomments //10.112.35.23/linux /home/montylee/win_share
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Also try this:

smbmnt /home/oie/win_share -s //10.112.35.23/linux
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Try referring the man pages of these commands.
 
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