Accessing Windows Networks


There are a couple of other tasks that you might want to perform with Fedora Core 4, in addition to using the Web, email, and instant messaging. One of them is accessing files on your local area network.

Most local area networks today are Windows networks. To be useful, a Linux workstation must be able to access files and directories on Windows servers around the local area network.

Fedora Core 4 does not ship with a My Network Places or Network Neighborhood icon. However, using the desktop file manager, you can access files and folders across the local Windows network.

Accessing Files on Windows Machines

To access the files on a Windows host on the local network using the file manager, follow these steps:

1.

Choose Places, Connect to Server.

2.

When the Connect to Server dialog box shown in Figure 13.12 appears, select Windows Share from the Service Type drop-down list.

Figure 13.12. To connect to and exchange files with a Windows host, select Windows Share from the Service Type drop-down list; then enter the name of the computer in question.


3.

Enter the name of the Windows host you want to exchange files with in the Server box.

4.

Click Connect.

If Linux is able to connect to the Windows host, an icon for the host will appear on your desktop. Double-click it to open a file manager window showing the list of shares available on the Windows host in question, as shown in Figure 13.13.

Figure 13.13. Double-click on the new icon on your desktop to open the list of shares on the Windows host.


While browsing a Windows host using the file manager, you can navigate the remote file system just as you would local files in the file manager window; you can also perform file copy, paste, delete, and move operations between the remote host and your Linux file system.

Unmounting Windows Hosts

When you're done with a Windows host and you no longer want its icon to appear on your desktop, close all of the file manager windows that display files on the remote host; then right-click on the host's desktop icon and choose Unmount from the context menu that appears.



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