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I'm running Ubuntu and I'm very new to Linux.

How would get my machine and a laptop running Windows XP connected as a LAN, I just can't figure out the settings i need.



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You need a program called 'Samba', I'm pretty sure this is available through Ubuntu's Synaptic Package Manager. Then I've found a pretty good samba tutorial.


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Thanks BDude,

I'll look into that, I finally pinged the other machine but i had the wrong NIC enabled lol.


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