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to Linux or XP,

What is the typical way of doing that?

Thanks

to Linux or XP,

What is the typical way of doing that?

Thanks
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Check out samba
It's on the dvd

/Geoff
Ps might be a good idea to use shorter titles and leave more for the post

What Is The Common Way Of Setting Up File Sharing Between Linux & to Linux or XP, What is the typical way of doing that?[/b]

As geoffro noted, most people use samba.

Having typed that, I have always found samba a pain to setup (mind you its been over 4 years since I last tried).

Since then, I've been using smb and ssh for file sharing. So until you get your samba setup sorted, as an interim solution, you could use smb and ssh.

As a kde user, to get from the Linux PC, to the Windows PC, open up Konqueror (the file manager) and type:
[b]smb://oldcpu@192.168.2.120).
Of course, you need to have the windows PC file sharing enabled, and the windows pc firewall opened such that the Linux PC is allowed access.

To access the Linux PC, from the Windows PC, I use the free application Winscp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinSCP
and I have the Linux PC firewall (port 22) opened to allow ssh transfer. I also blocked root access on the Linux PC over ssh as a security measure.

For network printing, I have a printer connected to a Linux PC, and I use the IPP print standard for printing from Windows to the Linux PC's printer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol

I have a Linux Concepts page I am working on here, which may be of some help in providing some general concepts:
http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts
Its a very condensed page, but it has links to provide more details.

Samba's long introduction is really scary. But that could be the way to get on Linux.

Thank you all for help!

Nothing to it really

Unless you want to be really afraid

Good backgrounding
Swerdna