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Basic Networking: Windows To Linux Fedora

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Jul 2005 19:15 UTC

Can a Windows system and a Linux system talk together harmoniously? After all, there is a lot of work and personal data left on Windows PCs that many want to keep! So this question of networking the two systems is both reasonable and vital.

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by Arakon on Thu 7th Jul 2005 20:01 UTC

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One small thing, I keep the shares password locked so windows actually has to login to the machine. I have the drive mapped locally to the 2 win boxes. WinXP remembers the password and has no problems but the Win2K machine has to have the password put in the first time it connects everytime.

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by on Thu 7th Jul 2005 20:12 in reply to "oh"

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THere is a way around this. Make sure that your samba user and windows users are the same and use the same password. Windows only prompts for a password if the current set of credentials (what you are logged in as) don't work. If they do work, it will just use them.

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by intangible on Thu 7th Jul 2005 22:48 in reply to "RE: oh"

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Know anymore of the details of this? Does this work on the net too?

For example, if I make a link on my webpage to file:\10.10.10.10share and a Windows user clicks on it, is Windows going to try to authenticate against my server using thier username and password? If so, isn't that a little dangerous sending passwords to random boxes?

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