I have Suse linux 10 installed. I can easily connect to my windows computers on the network. I can copy files from those computers but I can not connect to the Linux machine and copy files from it. I have Samba installed. How do I share the files to the Windows computers.

There are basically 2 steps to do this: 1) Set up Samba to share resources (directories/files). You do this by editing the smb.conf file. (Or you could use something like SWAT to configure it) 2) After configuring Samba, you usually need to set the permissions of the directories you are sharing so that users can read and/or write to those directories. (I know I said 2, but...) 3) In some cases, you may have to adjust settings in the software firewalls of your Linux box, and also your windows box so they can access each other. (I realize you can already access both machines, I just wanted to be thorough. :-)) Once you do this, you will be able to browse to your server from windows with explorer or network neighborhood. Your windows machine will see your Linux server as if it was a windows machine. MrBoogie

You will probably also need to create accounts on the linux machine with the same name and password as those used on the windoze computers and then add them to the samba users database. # adduser buddyg # smbpasswd -a buddyg