Donald D Henson wrote:
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Donald D Henson
[12-27-08 15:25]: I recently purchased an Acer Aspire One notebook computer (no CD or DVD drives). I need to make available to the Acer at least one of the CD/DVD drives on a Linux machine (OpenSUSE 11.0) so that I can install software. I thought Samba (version 3.0x) would let me do this but I cannot find any instructions on how to do it. I did find reference to something called drive mapping but only in Samba V2. Would someone point me to relevant newbie-style instructions or tell me I can't do that anymore. Any info or alternate procedures appreciated.
on your linux machine:
Set up samba via yast2 open swat in a browser, localhost:901
go to shares create a share name for your cd/dvd drive fill in the values to allow access as you wish
rcsamba start
go to the windoz machine:
open the run dialogue and //192.168.x.x/<share-name> (your linux machine ip)
answer the logon information <machine-name>/<allowed-user> <password>
note: I know little about samba, just followed instructions and I have access. I may have missed a step or two, chalk it up to old- timers.
Thanks for the instructions. Your first instruction identified my major problem. I don't have swat. I've decided that I will upgrade to 11.1 and see if the problem goes away. If not, I'll be bugging you again. :-)
If you installed samba you must have swat, you have to enable it via xinetd in yast. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org