How to setup a home network with Ubuntu

[Scott Grizzard]

The Ubuntu wiki has plenty of information about this, and the Ubuntu 
forums are the appropriate place to ask these questions.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba


If you have been messing with it for a while, you may need to purge your 
samba installation and reinstall it so you can start with a fresh install.

- Scott


On 10/4/09 8:32 PM, Jack Nash wrote:
> Samba Technical Team,
>
> I have recently migrated my home machines from Windows to Ubuntu Juanty
> Jackalope v9.04 and am struggling with getting the networking piece up and
> running.  With my Windows machines I used Windows Networking to share files
> between my PC's and am looking for the equivelant functionality within
> Ubuntu Linux.
>
> I have been spending a tremendous amount of time searching the web for
> step-by-step inctrcustions without success.  A such, I thought I would reach
> out to you directly.
>
> I do not need a full blown server configuration, though I would not mind
> doing so for the experience of it, but I do need the ability to browse the
> contents of my PC's, share files between them, and perform the same with my
> XP&  Vista machines as well.
>
> Can anyone within the list provide simple step-by-step instructions to setup
> a home network between my Ununtu PC's and my Windows XP&  Vista PC's?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Jack Nash
>
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