Re: [orca-list] Extremely Urgent, and I do mean urgent

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson <jbsn tpg com au>]

Hello Chris,
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 08:06:47AM -0400, Chris Gilland wrote:
> My company is requiring me to now be able to access both from Linux ande 
> from my windows laptop each system through file sharing.  I've tried 
> everything though.  I did do an apt-get for samba, but question now is what 
> next to do.  I have read many documentation files online but none of them 
> seem to make any sinse.  I can't really be specific what doesn't make sinse 
> as really the whole ordeal doesn't.  Unfortunately, remember:  I'm coming 
> from windows to Linux so, Linux to me still is almost a whole new language 
> if you will.  I know a lotta this I should get, and franklyl I gotta admit, 
> I'm a little scared of getting the rtfm thing with this msg.  Believe you me 
> I have read the f***ing manual.  It makes no sinse to me.  It may as well be 
> in greek.  Basicly here is what I'm trying to do precisely.  OK, if someone 
> can tell me what do do, step by step, where to go in my pannels, what to 
> type in a gnome-terminal etc. what file to edit, what lines to find in the 
> file and either uncomment or change, just really outline very very detailed, 
> I'd be one happy camper as this is gonna drive me mother flippin nuts!
>
> Basicly, I have a 300 gig hard disc, external u s b by the way, which is 
> connected currently to my Dell Inspiron laptop running xp home.  on this 
> drive, which has the volume label of "Jukebox," there is a folder with about 
> 190 gigs of data.  The folder is called ftp.
 
Samba will do the job for you. In order to understand the differences 
between Linux and DOS/Windows, I suggest that you read 

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/text/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO

and to learn what you have to do with Samba, have a look at 

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/text/SMB-HOWTO

Good luck!

Regards,

Bertil