How to read documents on a windows machine networked to a laptop running Ubuntu Desktop ?

Craig Hagerman craighagerman at gmail.com
Fri Oct 6 14:56:31 UTC 2006


On 10/6/06, Fouad Riaz Bajwa <bajwa at fossfp.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> How can I read documents that are on a NTFS drive on a Windows XP machine
> networked to a laptop running Ubuntu Desktop? I can access the network as
> well as Internet running on the Windows machine.



Use Samba. Set it up on the Ubuntu machine, get it running on the windows
machine, make sure the computer domain/ workgroup are set the same, and you
should be able to browse shared folders.
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