network with windows pc

I'm connecting to the internet wirelessly, via a wireless router which is wired into my windows vista pc. I'm hoping therefore to access files on that pc from my aspire one. I was assuming I'd set up some sort of home network using samba, which I've heard a little about, so I tried to follow the instructions here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba

But what is displayed in the `network settings` window (accessible from Systems/Administration/Network) seems a bit different from what's in the screenshot on that page. I have no way of clicking add, for instance. I've installed smbfs and rebooted but it's made no difference.

Has anyone done this? Can I do this? Thanks for any help.

 

You should be able to open up Nautilus (the file manager) and go to the URL smb://host/sharename

The host is your Windows PC, and the sharename is the share you set up in windows. On one of my boxes (dutch), for example, the D drive is shared, so it's smb://dutch/D

If the host IP isn't resolved correctly, add the IP to /etc/hosts on the Ubuntu box, or just use the IP in the URL: smb://192.168.1.2/D

Perry
www.kidpub.com

 

Thanks - I can see my PC. I can't do anything, so I guess I have to play around in Windows a little now so there's something to be seen from my Aspire. Thanks for your help (so far - I might be back but I'll have a good google to avoid asking too many `total beginner` questions!)

 

In windows, right click on a folder and go to 'Sharing and Security', that will give you the option of sharing that folder via Samba (also called CIFS).

 

Thanks but I got it working. Only thing is, I have to know what I've shared, and type it directly. Ie, in windows, I might be sharing:

d:\music

so in Linux I have to type:

smb://pipco/music

(where pipco is the pc name. forgot now if i'm using 1 or 2 slashes before pipco actually).

But what I'd like is to just see a tree of folders so I can just type:

smb://pipco

and from then on navigate using the regular linux file manager. Last night I was trying to see my documents folder but I couldn't remember if it was docs or documents etc and someone was using the pc so it was inconvenient to go and check.