I need to set up a network with WINXP and Mandrake 8.2, Can someone please post a step by step tutorial for Setting up SAMBA?

A search on Google using the search phrase "SAMBA install guides" produced a couple of good on-line tutorials, step by step instructions. Underdog

In case these may be of help, here are some of my notes. Setting up Linux to network with Windows from the command shell You can ignore the page numbers as they are from my Linux book. 1. At the Command Shell, type setup to get into the Setup Utility (page 81) 2. Highlight authentication configuration and select [*] Use SMB Authentication Workgroup: workgroup. Click ok to get back to the main screen. 3. Highlight Firewall configuration (page 139 – 141) and select (*) Medium then click on the Customize button. Select Trusted Devices: [*] eth0. Click ok to get back to the main screen. 4. Highlight Network Configuration and select Yes to set up networking. Select [*] Use dynamic IP configuration unless you want to do it manually. Gateway is the address of your router and Primary nameserver is the IP address of your ISP’s DNS server. You can see what that is on the router configuration. 5. Highlight System services and select [*] smb. Click ok and then Quit to exit the setup utility. 6. More Networking (page 1016 – 1017). These files are in the etc directory so type cd /etc. Use the VI editor and press the insert button to add information. To save the changes and exit type :wq! 7. Modify the hosts, HOSTNAME and network files. My machine is called barney and the workgroup is called workgroup. · get to the /etc directory · type vi hosts · press the insert button and go to the next line · 127.0.0.1 barney.workgroup localhost · 192.168.1.20 barney.workgroup · 192.168.1.3 machine2.workgroup · 192.168.1.1 machine3.workgroup · press the escape key · :wq! · get to the /etc directory · type vi HOSTNAME · press the insert button · barney.workgroup · :wq! · get to the /etc directory · type vi /sysconfig/network · press the insert button · NETWORK=yes · HOSTNAME=barney.workgroup · GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 · :wq! Now we can setup the Samba part of networking (page 964) At the command promt type the following · groupadd workgroup · adduser charlie –g workgroup · passwd charlie (when prompted, add the password ) 1. cd /etc/samba vi smbusers press the insert key and go to next available line charlie = username :wq! 2. cd /etc/samba smbpasswd –a charlie enter the password 3. cd /etc/samba vi smb.conf press the insert key workgroup = WORKGROUP make other changes as needed :wq!