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Hello all.

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Ok, Here is what I'm trying to do. I have a UBUNTU 5.04 box with a music player on it. We play our office music on this machine and nothing else. Our office is mostly windows xp based. I have all my wonderful music stored on my windows PC. I wanted to know the best way to allow the linux box to be "mapped" to my windows computer so that I can access push my music to the linux box. NO FTP or SSH or anything like that. I wanna have the linux box show up like a mapped drive.

(explain carefully and detailed becuase I don't know anything about linux)
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i dont need samba cuz my ubuntu box can be a server or can I peer to peer?
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service smb start didn't work
nevermind... now my windows computer sees the music box but when i try to login into it (from windows to linux) with the linux use rnaem and password... the loning changed the user name to the name of my computer \kissmecat <--- my linux user name. It wont work though. How to fix or correct or setup.
Make sure you have your users in /etc/samba/smbusers

Joshua McDowell
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how do i do that??
 Please read the following post..

http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/manual4/sambausers.html

  It explains in a little more detail what needs to be done next..  It should give you an idea of what you need to search for to completle your task.
  I will explain the basics..
  You have Linux users, and you have a user created on your windows machine..  In order for them to have personalized access on your linux box, they must have an account on your linux box.  On top of that, samba ( Server Message Block or SMB ) must also have separate accounts that it can authenticate against.  So if you setup those accountws according to that article, you should be good.  So long as the unix user exsists, once authenticated it should place them in their home directory share.  
 Sorry didn't mean to post yet..
  So anyway, that is an option that must be set in /etc/samba/smb.conf In that file you will see all kinds of options as far as what gets shared and what doesn't.

  Joshua McDowell
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PERFECT!!!!! GOOD JOB GUYS!!!! But now i have to post a question on how to create a setup FTP... can you guys help me out with that one too???