Got it installed!!!!

[Robbo]

On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 09:58 -0500, Barry Young wrote:
> WOW!  Linux has really developed since I last played with it!  
>  
> I am extremely impressed with Ubuntu!

So am I!

>  
> Now just a couple of questions here...
>  
> (1) I am interested in learning the commands (Unix) so I can build
> some scripts to run commands and output the result to a file and email
> the file.  Batch type processes.

http://www.tldp.org/guides.html is a good place to start.

>  
> (2) I need to be able to access a shared folder on Ubuntu from Windows
> XP. 

I presume the Windows machine is not the same computer as your Ubuntu
machine...

Quick way;  Places (from the menu) / Network Servers.  or in the
Location bar smb://winxpmachinename.  

Also look at the mount command and /etc/fstab file for a more
permanent/automatic way.